Periphery

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Periphery or peripheral may refer to:

Music

  • Periphery (band), American progressive metal band
  • Periphery (album), released in 2010 by Periphery
  • "Periphery", a song from Fiona Apple's album The Idler Wheel...

Gaming and entertainment

  • Periphery, a group of political entities in BattleTech, a wargaming franchise
  • The Peripheral, a 2014 novel by William Gibson
    • The Peripheral (TV series), a streaming series based on Gibson's novel

Mathematics

  • Peripheral, an alternate mathematical term for boundary parallel in manifold theory
  • Peripheral cycle, a mathematical term in graph theory

Computing

  • Peripheral, a device connected to a computer

Political

  • Periphery countries, the least developed countries in world systems theory
  • Periphery (France), statistical area designating a commuter belt around an urban unit
  • Peripheries of Greece or administrative regions of Greece (Greek: περιφέρειες, peripheries), the country's first-level administrative divisions
    • Peripheral units of Greece or regional units of Greece (Greek: περιφερειακές ενότητες, perifereiakés enóti̱tes), second-level administrative divisions

Biology

  • Periphery, all of the body outside of the central nervous system
  • Peripherally selective drug, a drug with a primary mechanism of action outside of the central nervous system
  • Peripheral nervous system, the part of the nervous system outside of the central nervous system
  • Peripheral vision, a part of the vision that occurs on the edges of the field of vision

See also

  • Peripheral unit (disambiguation)
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