Peripheral

Adjective

 * 1) on the periphery or boundary
 * 2) beside the point
 * 3) unimportant
 * 4) auxiliary
 * 5)  a part of or located in the peripheral nervous system

Derived terms

 * peripherally
 * peripheral vision
 * peripheral nervous system

Related terms

 * periphery

Noun

 * 1)  a device, such as a printer or scanner, connected to a computer

Synonyms

 * peripheral device

Thesaurus
ambient, apparent, beside the point, circling, circumambient, circumferential, circumflex, circumfluent, circumfluous, circumjacent, cortical, delineatory, embracing, encircling, enclosing, encompassing, enfolding, enveloping, environing, epidermic, exomorphic, exterior, external, extrinsic, fringe, in outline, incidental, inessential, irrelevant, minor, neighboring, open, out, outer, outermost, outlined, outlying, outmost, outside, outstanding, outward, outward-facing, perimetric, public, roundabout, secondary, seeming, suburban, superficial, surface, surrounding, tangential, unessential, unimportant, unnecessary, wrapping

Etymology
< peripher-y + -al

Adjective

 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ääri-, reuna-
 * Greek: περιφερειακός, περιφερικός
 * Hungarian: periferiális, periferikus


 * Italian:
 * Norwegian: perifer
 * Romanian: periferic
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish:


 * Finnish:
 * Greek: περιφερειακός
 * Hungarian: periferiális, periferikus


 * Norwegian: perifer
 * Spanish:


 * Finnish:
 * Greek: επουσιώδης
 * Hungarian: periferiális, periferikus


 * Italian:
 * Norwegian: perifer
 * Romanian: secundar, neimportant


 * Finnish: lisä-, oheis-
 * Greek: περιφερειακός
 * Italian:


 * Norwegian: perifer
 * Romanian: auxiliar
 * Spanish:

Noun

 * Finnish:
 * Hungarian:


 * Spanish:


 * : periferenhet