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peripheral |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Peripheral \Pe*riph"er*al\, a. 1. Of or pertaining to a periphery; constituting a periphery; peripheric. 2. (Anat.) External; away from the center; as the peripheral portion of the nervous system. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: peripheral adj 1: of or relating to or of the nature of a periphery; "peripheral vision" 2: on or near an edge or constituting an outer boundary; "russia's peripheral provinces"; "peripheral vision" [ant: {central}] 3: not of central importance; "energy is far from a peripheral issue in the economy" n : (computer science) devices connected by cable to the CPU of a computer; "disk drives and printers are important peripherals" [syn: {computer peripheral}, {peripheral device}] From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: peripheral(Or "peripheral device", "device") Any part of a computer other than the {CPU} or {working memory}, i.e. {disks}, {keyboards}, {monitors}, {mice}, {printers}, {scanners}, {tape drives}, {microphones}, {speakers}, {cameras}, to list just the less exotic ones. High speed working {memory}, such as {RAM}, {ROM} or in the old days, {core} would not normally be referred to as peripherals. The more modern term device" is also more general in that it is used for things such as a {pseudo-tty}, a {RAM drive} or a {network adaptor}. (1999-02-10)
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