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Periphery   /pərˈɪfəri/   Listen
Periphery

noun
(pl. peripheries)
1.
The outside boundary or surface of something.  Synonyms: fringe, outer boundary.






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"Periphery" Quotes from Famous Books



... straight ahead, take a bit of color in the hand and bring it slowly in from the side, noticing what color sensation you get from it when it can first be seen at all, and what changes in color appear as it moves from the extreme periphery to the center of the field of view, (b) Form sense. Use printed letters in the same way, noticing how far out they can be read, (c) Sense of motion. Notice how far out a little movement of the finger can be seen. Sum up what you have learned of the differences between central ...
— Psychology - A Study Of Mental Life • Robert S. Woodworth

... constant and identical histologic changes in the liver—the cells stained poorly, the cytoplasm was vacuolated, the nuclei were crenated, the cell membranes were irregular, the most marked changes occurring in the cells of the periphery of the lobules (Figs. 69 and 70). In prolonged insomnia the striking changes in the liver were repaired by one ...
— The Origin and Nature of Emotions • George W. Crile

... necessarily runs even with the line of society. You cannot unite past and present, still less can you bring back the past; moreover, the law of progress is the law of storms, it is impossible to inscribe an immutable statute of language on the periphery of a vortex, whirling as it advances. Every political development induces a concurrent alteration or expansion in conversation and composition. New principles are generated, new authorities introduced; new terms for the purpose of explaining or concealing the conduct of public men must be created: ...
— On the Study of Words • Richard C Trench

... experiments thus far, Mr. Eddy has discharged the copper wire leading from his collector into a wooden box containing a pasteboard wheel with darning-needle axle and tinfoil edges. The axle is grounded, and the copper wire from the collector placed near the tinfoil periphery of the wheel, so as to discharge its sparks through the intervening distance, and by the shock ...
— McClure's Magazine, March, 1896, Vol. VI., No. 4. • Various



Words linked to "Periphery" :   peripheral, bound, edge, boundary



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