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Word entry · 9 letters

periphery

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"Outer edge"

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9 lettersPronunciation /pəˈɹɪf.ə.ɹi/Part of speech nounSorted eehipprryStarts with PEnds with Y1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Filled answer is this word (PERIPHERY).

Definitions

  1. the outside boundary or surface of something

Word origin

Borrowed from Middle French peripherie. Compare Middle English periferie (“one of three layers of atmosphere (lower, middle, and upper) believed to surround the Earth”), from the same origin, although the Modern English term most likely does not descend from it.

Used in a sentence

  • The suburbs are a city's periphery.
  • Tumor location was concentrated in the macula and superonasal periphery in patients 13.2 months.
  • The phrase 'Imperial Manila' is used throughout the archipelago to denote the capital-heavy decision-making and the imposition of the will and culture of the political and economic centre on the peripheries.

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