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Your peripheral vision is the outer area of your field of vision, where you can still detect movement and shapes. It can be very valuable when, for instance, you're driving into Chicago at rush hour, especially when switching lanes. When people call an issue in a discussion peripheral, they mean that it's not of primary importance, and they're probably suggesting that everyone get back to the main topic. Peripheral is now also a noun: computer peripherals are the added components—printers, webcams, microphones, etc.—that increase a computer's capacities.
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Emily Mullin, WIRED, 9 Dec. 2024
None of these peripheral characters feel fully sketched out, despite the actors trying to liven things up; at least Crowe lends gravitas and a sense of anarchy to his nightmare of a patriarch, and Nivola seems to be having fun prior to his CGI transformation thing.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 5 Dec. 2024
Brenda Stolyar, WIRED, 10 Dec. 2024
The Raptor includes a bloatware-free Windows 11 installation, and Velocity Micro sells peripherals separately.
—PCMAG, 6 Dec. 2024
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“Peripheral.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/peripheral. Accessed 26 Dec. 2024.
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