Synonyms for Peripheral
pəˈrɪf ər əlpe·riph·er·al

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1. peripheralnoun

   Synonyms:
   peripheral device

2. peripheraladjective

   on the periphery or boundary

   Synonyms:
   peripheral device

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1. peripheral, computer peripheral, peripheral deviceadjective

   (computer science) electronic equipment connected by cable to the CPU of a computer

   "disk drives and printers are important peripherals"

   Synonyms:
   peripheral, computer peripheral, peripheral device

   Antonyms:
   focal, midway, middlemost, nuclear, bicentric, centrical, centered, bifocal, halfway, middle(a), median, center(a), centric, medial, central, midmost, amidship, basic

2. peripheraladjective

   on or near an edge or constituting an outer boundary; the outer area

   "Russia's peripheral provinces"; "peripheral suburbs"

   Antonyms:
   middlemost, median, bifocal, middle(a), centric, halfway, basic, medial, amidship, central, centered, midway, center(a), centrical, focal, midmost, nuclear, bicentric

3. peripheraladjective

   related to the key issue but not of central importance

   "a peripheral interest"; "energy is far from a peripheral issue in the economy"; "peripheral issues"

   Antonyms:
   basic, middlemost, nuclear, centrical, halfway, midway, amidship, centered, focal, middle(a), bifocal, bicentric, median, medial, centric, center(a), central, midmost

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1. List of paraphrases for "peripheral":

   outlying, outermost, peripherals, remote, outer, marginal, ultra-peripheral, neighboring, perimeter, adjacent, periphery

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1. Eric Leuthardt:

   What's interesting is that the blood-brain barrier is a two-way street, by breaking it down, you can get things into the brain, but also by breaking it down now things can go from your brain out into your circulation, to your peripheral system, which includes your immune system.

2. Julius Baer:

   There seems to be certainly more potential in euro zone (earnings) than in the U.S. ... But markets with a higher domestic exposure should be more rewarding going forward than those that are internationally exposed, in a nutshell, we prefer peripheral markets like Italy and Spain to Germany.

3. John Castellani:

   It takes a lot to drop the core body temperature down, but it doesnt take as much to drive the peripheral temperatures down.

4. Stephen Jay Gould:

   “If evolution almost always occurs by rapid speciation in small, peripheral isolates, then what should the fossil record look like? We are not likely to detect the event of speciation itself. It happens too fast, in too small a group, isolated too far from the ancestral range ...

5. Eric Tremblay:

   When magnified you lose a lot of your field of view, your peripheral vision.