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peripheral Definition


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peripheral
adj
    1. Relating or belonging to the outer edge or outer surface.
      Example: peripheral nerves
      Thesaurus: outside, outer, external, surface, outlying, superficial; Antonym: central.
    2. Not central to the issue in hand; marginal.
      Thesaurus: incidental, inessential, tangential, marginal, superficial, unimportant, trivial, unnecessary; Antonym: crucial.
      Form: peripheral to something
    3. computing.
      Supplementary; auxiliary.
    4. Relating to the outer edge of the field of vision.
noun
    1. computing.
      A device concerned with the input, output or backup storage of data, eg a printer, mouse or disk drive.
      Form: peripheral device


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