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Another word for periphery

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periphery

n.

outskirts, fringe, perimeter, border; see boundary, edge 1, outside 1. See syn. study at circumference.

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Another word for periphery

noun

A line around a closed figure or area:
ambit, circuit, circumference, compass, perimeter. See edge
A fairly narrow line or space forming a boundary:
border, borderline, brim, brink, edge, edging, fringe, margin, rim, verge. (Chiefly Military) perimeter. See edge

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The largest vessels have ready entrance to the harbour - which has a periphery of 15 m.
Similarly the giant cells are produced at their periphery into a number of branching processes which bear similar end-organs on their surface and in some cases terminate in them.
To " the attraction of the periphery or section of the surface of the tube to which the upper surface of the water is contiguous and coheres."
(6) or the force arising from the surface-tension acting on a length a of the strip is Ta, so that T represents the surface-tension acting transversely on every unit of length of the periphery of the liquid surface.
Calcite reaching from the periphery nearly or quite to the centre of the coral-cup or calicle.

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