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Definition
the outside boundary or surface of something;
or more rarely: outside the area of main activity
or more rarely: outside the area of main activity
- These wells, thrusting downward some three hundred feet, still dot the township, and there were seven around the peripheries of our farm.p. 45.9
- Some of the junk half buried in weeds around the periphery had been there so long that paths circumnavigated it, and I started up one of these, toward a stand of hackberries and hawthorns.p. 247.4
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