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词汇 peripheral
释义 peripheral
adjective
uk /pəˈrɪf.ər.əl/ us /pəˈrɪf.ɚ.əl/
Something that is peripheral is not as important as something else: 次要的,附带的
The book contains a great deal of peripheral detail.该书包含了大量无关紧要的细节。
happening at the edge of something: 外围的,边缘的
A figure came into my peripheral vision.一个身影从远处映入我眼帘。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Of little or less importance
be in/under someone's shadowidiom
be neither here nor thereidiom
big deal
biggie
derisory
marginal
meaningless
meaninglessly
meaninglessness
mere
picayune
picture
piddling
piddly
piffling
unrevolutionary
unserious
unseriousness
venial
vestigial

You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:


Edges & extremities of objects
peripheral
noun[ C ]
 computing specializeduk /pəˈrɪf.ər.əl/ us /pəˈrɪf.ɚ.əl/
a piece of equipment, such as a printer, that can be connected to a computer(计算机的)外围设备(如打印机)
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Computer hardware
3-D printer
active matrix
alt-
associative memory
backlight
Bluetooth
chip
console
flat screen
joypad
microcomputer
multi-client
multitasker
netbook
non-mobile
number pad
plug and play
trackball
underscore
VDT

peripheral | American Dictionary


peripheral
adjective
us/pəˈrɪf·ər·əl/
not central or of main importance:
First of all, we had to find out who the thief was – getting the money back was a peripheral issue.
Peripheral vision is what you can see to the sides of what you are looking at.
peripheral
noun[ C ]
us/pəˈrɪf·ər·əl/
a piece of equipment, such as a printer, that can be connected to a computer

peripheral | Business English


peripheral
adjective
uk /pəˈrɪfərəl/us
used to describe something that is not as important as the main thing to which it is related, for example a company's less successful activities in relation to its most successful ones:
Some of the more peripheral interests have been sold and the company now has a clearer focus on certain markets.
IT
used to describe a piece of equipment, such as a printer, that can be connected to a computer:
The system is expected to boost sales of PCs as well as components, applications, and peripheral devices.
peripheral
noun[ C ]
uk /pəˈrɪfərəl/us
IT
a piece of equipment, such as a printer, that can be connected to a computer:
Whether something is a peripheral or part of a computer is not always clear.

Examples of peripheral


peripheral
Computers and their peripherals are electrical devices which need to be cabled together and to the electricity supply.
The seventh to eleventh peripherals are mediolaterally expanded.
Emendations of the design elements carried on somewhat in the fashion of adding plug-compatible peripherals to an existing core platform.
There may be diagrams to show how the servers, peripherals, storage devices, network and user terminals are interconnected.
The second to sixth peripherals are narrow medio-laterally, and the first to seventh peripherals have a thickened and upturned lateral edge forming a gutter.
The first to third peripherals contact the first costal plate.
The complexity of many systems demands that an engineer be involved in the initial configuration of the robot and its peripherals.
A laptop is designed to have all the necessary peripherals in one case and a mouse would have to be carried separately.
The right use of the analog and digital interfaces collecting signals from external peripherals and providing control signals to them allows the system to operate properly.
Ten years later, the corpus of the twentieth century includes different kinds of instruments such as guitars, amplifiers, synthesizers, computers and peripherals, drums and so on.
Why is the number of genes regulated in sensory neurons after peripheral nerve injury so large?
Thus, even low-level viral replication is then sufficient to deplete the remaining central and peripheral reserves.
I found the author's style rather verbose for a scientific text and too many anecdotes of peripheral significance have extended the length.
The exercise is not without interest, but apart from being unwieldy on a kingdom-wide scale, it is peripheral to our purpose.
Attached to it are peripherals, and its arithmetical facility is merely one of those peripherals.
From the
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