Periphery
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Periphery or peripheral may refer to:
Music
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Peripheral, an alternate mathematical term for boundary parallel in manifold theory
- Peripheral cycle, a mathematical term in graph theory
Computing
[edit]- Peripheral, a device connected to a computer
Political
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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