Definition of Periphery

Periphery

The outside or superficial portions of a body; the surface.

The circumference of a circle, ellipse, or other figure.

Related Definitions:

Body, Circle, Circumference, Ellipse, Figure, Of, Or, Other, Outside, Superficial, Surface, The

Periphery Quotations

Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.
Warren G. Bennis

While other industries have suffered, the nonprofit arts world continues to build in strength while it encourages the growth of innumerable small businesses on its periphery, thereby creating more jobs.
Louise Slaughter

It is hard to imagine that, having downgraded the US, S & P will not follow suit on at least one of the other members of the dwindling club of sovereign AAAs. If this were to materialise and involve a country like France, for example, it could complicate the already fragile efforts by Europe to rescue countries in its periphery.
Mohamed El-Erian

I've been out on the periphery.
Thomas Dolby

I seem to have been everywhere in the last 30 years, maybe not in the epicenter but flying around the periphery of extraordinary events and equally extraordinary people.
Rupert Everett

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Periphery Translations

periphery in Danish is omfang
periphery in Dutch is buitenkant, cirkelomtrek
periphery in German is Peripherien, Peripherie
periphery in Italian is periferia, volume
periphery in Portuguese is periferia
periphery in Spanish is periferia, ambito, perimetro

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