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Antonyms for periphery

Grammar : Noun
Spell : puh-rif-uh-ree
Phonetic Transcription : pəˈrɪf ə ri

Definition of periphery

Origin :
  • late 14c., "atmosphere around the earth," from Old French periferie (Modern French périphérie), from Medieval Latin periferia, from Late Latin peripheria, from Greek peripheria "circumference, outer surface, line round a circular body," literally "a carrying around," from peripheres "rounded, moving round, revolving," peripherein "carry or move round," from peri- "round about" (see peri-) + pherein "to carry" (see infer). Meaning "outside boundary of a surface" attested in English from 1570s; general sense of "boundary" is from 1660s.
  • noun outskirts, outer edge
Example sentences :
  • Even chiaroscuros, with their few sober tones, fell into this periphery.
  • Extract from : « John Baptist Jackson » by Jacob Kainen
  • So the intervals will be equal in the directions both of the periphery and of the length.
  • Extract from : « Ten Books on Architecture » by Vitruvius
  • So a circle is a figure: Because it is a plaine every way bounded with one periphery.
  • Extract from : « The Way To Geometry » by Peter Ramus
  • If the angle in the periphery be equall to the angle in the center, it is double to it in base.
  • Extract from : « The Way To Geometry » by Peter Ramus
  • A tangent is but one onely in that point of the periphery Schoner.
  • Extract from : « The Way To Geometry » by Peter Ramus
  • Draw a periphery by three points, which doe not fall in a right line.
  • Extract from : « The Way To Geometry » by Peter Ramus
  • Therefore the remainder aei, is the double of the other aoi, in the periphery.
  • Extract from : « The Way To Geometry » by Peter Ramus
  • Let the periphery of the section aoe, to be halfed or cut into two equall parts.
  • Extract from : « The Way To Geometry » by Peter Ramus
  • The plaine of the ray and one quarter of the periphery, is the content of the semicircle.
  • Extract from : « The Way To Geometry » by Peter Ramus
  • It is made by turning about of the side about the periphery beneath.
  • Extract from : « The Way To Geometry » by Peter Ramus

Synonyms for periphery

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