Periphery

Periphery or peripheral may refer to:

Music

• Periphery (band), American progressive metal band
• Periphery (album), released in 2010 by Periphery
• "Periphery", a song from Fiona Apple's album The Idler Wheel...

Gaming and entertainment

• Periphery, a group of political entities in BattleTech, a wargaming franchise
• The Peripheral, a 2014 novel by William Gibson
  • The Peripheral (TV series), a streaming series based on Gibson's novel

Mathematics

• Peripheral, an alternate mathematical term for boundary parallel in manifold theory
• Peripheral cycle, a mathematical term in graph theory

Computing

• Peripheral, a device connected to a computer

Political

• Periphery countries, the least developed countries in world systems theory
• Periphery (France), statistical area designating a commuter belt around an urban unit
• Peripheries of Greece or administrative regions of Greece (Greek: περιφέρειες, peripheries), the country's first-level administrative divisions
  • Peripheral units of Greece or regional units of Greece (Greek: περιφερειακές ενότητες, perifereiakés enóti̱tes), second-level administrative divisions

Biology

• Periphery, all of the body outside of the central nervous system
• Peripherally selective drug, a drug with a primary mechanism of action outside of the central nervous system
• Peripheral nervous system, the part of the nervous system outside of the central nervous system
• Peripheral vision, a part of the vision that occurs on the edges of the field of vision

See also

• Peripheral unit (disambiguation)
• Core–periphery structure