PERIPHERAL | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

Meaning of peripheral in English

(Definition of peripheral from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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Examples of peripheral

peripheral
Computers and their peripherals are electrical devices which need to be cabled together and to the electricity supply.
The seventh to eleventh peripherals are mediolaterally expanded.
Emendations of the design elements carried on somewhat in the fashion of adding plug-compatible peripherals to an existing core platform.
There may be diagrams to show how the servers, peripherals, storage devices, network and user terminals are interconnected.
The second to sixth peripherals are narrow medio-laterally, and the first to seventh peripherals have a thickened and upturned lateral edge forming a gutter.
The first to third peripherals contact the first costal plate.
The complexity of many systems demands that an engineer be involved in the initial configuration of the robot and its peripherals.
A laptop is designed to have all the necessary peripherals in one case and a mouse would have to be carried separately.
The right use of the analog and digital interfaces collecting signals from external peripherals and providing control signals to them allows the system to operate properly.
Ten years later, the corpus of the twentieth century includes different kinds of instruments such as guitars, amplifiers, synthesizers, computers and peripherals, drums and so on.
Why is the number of genes regulated in sensory neurons after peripheral nerve injury so large?
Thus, even low-level viral replication is then sufficient to deplete the remaining central and peripheral reserves.
I found the author's style rather verbose for a scientific text and too many anecdotes of peripheral significance have extended the length.
The exercise is not without interest, but apart from being unwieldy on a kingdom-wide scale, it is peripheral to our purpose.
Attached to it are peripherals, and its arithmetical facility is merely one of those peripherals.
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Translations of peripheral

in Chinese (Traditional)
次要的,附帶的, 周邊的,邊緣的, (電腦的)周邊設備(如印表機)…
in Chinese (Simplified)
次要的,附带的, 外围的,边缘的, (计算机的)外围设备(如打印机)…
in Spanish
secundario, periférico, Periférico…
in Portuguese
periférico…
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diğerleri kadar önemli olmayan, göreceli olarak, çevresel…
périphérique…
rand-…
okrajový, periferní zařízení (poč.)…
periferisk, ydre enheder…
periferal, pinggiran, peralatan tambahan…
เกี่ยวกับขอบนอก, อุปกรณ์ต่อพ่วง…
ngoại vi, thiết bị ngoại vi…
marginalny, urządzenie zewnętrzne, peryferyjny…
perifer[isk], perifer…
tdk berapa penting, persisian…
Rand…, das Peripheriegerät…
perifer, periferisk…
периферійний, периферійне обладнання…
второстепенный, периферийное оборудование, дополнительное устройство…
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