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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Peripheral \Pe*riph"er*al\, a.
1. Of or pertaining to a periphery; constituting a periphery;
peripheric.
2. (Anat.) External; away from the center; as the peripheral
portion of the nervous system.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
peripheral
adj 1: of or relating to or of the nature of a periphery;
"peripheral vision"
2: on or near an edge or constituting an outer boundary;
"russia's peripheral provinces"; "peripheral vision" [ant:
{central}]
3: not of central importance; "energy is far from a peripheral
issue in the economy"
n : (computer science) devices connected by cable to the CPU of
a computer; "disk drives and printers are important
peripherals" [syn: {computer peripheral}, {peripheral
device}]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]:
peripheral
(Or "peripheral device", "device") Any part of a
computer other than the {CPU} or {working memory},
i.e. {disks}, {keyboards}, {monitors}, {mice}, {printers},
{scanners}, {tape drives}, {microphones}, {speakers},
{cameras}, to list just the less exotic ones.
High speed working {memory}, such as {RAM}, {ROM} or in the
old days, {core} would not normally be referred to as
peripherals. The more modern term device" is also more
general in that it is used for things such as a {pseudo-tty},
a {RAM drive} or a {network adaptor}.
(1999-02-10)
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