1. the outer limits or edge of an area or object: "new buildings on the periphery of the hospital site"
▪ a marginal or secondary position in, or aspect of, a group, subject, or sphere of activity:"a shift in power from the centre to the periphery"
Word Originlate 16th century (denoting a line that forms the boundary of something): via late Latin from Greek periphereia ‘circumference’, from peripherēs ‘revolving around’, from peri- ‘around’ + pherein ‘to bear’.
