Entertainment / Video Games / Peripheral: A piece of hardware (such as a hard drive, or memory card) that is added to a computer or video game console to provide a specific supplementary function.
Search Google for Peripheral:
Peripheral Adjective Synonyms: incidental, unimportant, minor, secondary, inessential or unessential, non-essential, unnecessary, superficial, tangential, irrelevant, beside the point
Peripheral Noun Synonyms: circumferential, external, perimetric, outside, outer
MORE
Technology / Computers / Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI): A local bus standard developed by Intel Corporation. Most modern PCs include a PCI bus in addition to a more general ISA expansion bus. Many analysts, however, believe that PCI will eventually supplan MORE
Science / Biology / Peripheral Nervous System: The division of the nervous system that connects the central nervous system to other parts of the body. Components of the nervous system that transmit messages to the central nervous system. MORE
Health / Fitness / Peripheral Heart Action (PHA): A system of training where you go from one exercise to another, with little or no rest, preferably alternating upper body and lower body exercises. Designed for cardiovascular training and to develop MORE
Health / Fitness / Peripheral Vascular Disease: Lack of oxygen supply to the working muscles and tissues of the body, resulting from decreased blood supply.Predominately affects the limbs,the parts of the body furthest away from the heart such as t MORE
Health / Dentistry / Subperiosteal Implant: A framework specifically fabricated to fit the supporting areas of the mandible or maxilla with permucosal extensions for support and attachment of a prosthesis. The framework consists of: permucosal MORE
Health / Dentistry / Cortical Bone: A peripheral layer of compact osseous tissue. The average thickness of the cortex of alveolar bone is two millimeters. MORE