Definition of Peripheral

Peripheral

Of or pertaining to a periphery; constituting a periphery; peripheric.

External; away from the center; as, the peripheral portion of the nervous system.

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Peripheral Quotations

I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side.
Steven Wright

If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.
Vaclav Havel

Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn't management itself becomes a peripheral opponent to the team's mission.
Pat Riley

A line has to be drawn somewhere between what is essential and what is peripheral.
Sargent Shriver

I don't say that the supposed Civil Rights development is a myth, but it's a matter of dealing with reality. It's purely peripheral and, in many cases, it's just a facade.
Norman Granz

I have this home in New York, I have a long-term relationship with my boyfriend, who's from Australia, and I had this business that I had maintain. Even though I wasn't actively shooting, there's a lot of peripheral work.
Claire Danes

A second characteristic of our time is the prevalence of nationalism. This is still spreading, affecting new communities, more peripheral regions and so-called backward peoples.
Emily Greene Balch

I had found again and again that the most aberrant population of a species - often having reached species rank, and occasionally classified even as a separate genus - occurred at a peripheral location, indeed usually at the most isolated peripheral location.
Ernst Mayr

But even with no money you could still go to places like the Scotch Club and, you know, John Lennon might be sitting right over there, but I was certainly not a part of any of that circle. I was truly peripheral.
Donald Sutherland