Usually means: Outer edge or surrounding area.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word periphery:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. periphery: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. periphery: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. periphery: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. periphery: Collins English Dictionary
  5. periphery: Vocabulary.com
  6. Periphery, periphery: Wordnik
  7. periphery: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. periphery: Wiktionary
  9. periphery: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. periphery: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. periphery: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. periphery: Dictionary.com
  13. periphery: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. periphery: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Periphery (BattleTech), Periphery (France), Periphery (album), Periphery (band), Periphery (country subdivision), Periphery: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Periphery: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. periphery: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. periphery: Rhymezone
  19. Periphery: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. periphery: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. periphery: Free Dictionary
  22. periphery: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. periphery: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. periphery: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. periphery: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Periphery: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. periphery: Medical dictionary
  5. Periphery: Drug Medical Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Periphery: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See peripheries as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  The outside boundary, parts or surface of something.
noun:  A first-rank administrative division of Greece, subdivided into provinces.
noun:  (grammar, linguistics) The more anomalous and infrequent aspects of a language, as opposed to the frequent and regular core aspects.

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