Periphery

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In biology

• Peripheral nervous system
  Peripheral nervous system
  
  The peripheral nervous system resides or extends outside the central nervous system , which consists of the brain and spinal cord. The main function of the PNS is to connect the CNS to the limbs and organs....
  , distinct from the central nervous system
• Peripheral membrane protein
  Peripheral membrane protein
  
  Peripheral membrane proteins are proteins that adhere only temporarily to the biological membrane with which they are associated. These molecules attach to integral membrane proteins, or penetrate the peripheral regions of the lipid bilayer....
  , proteins that temporarily adhere to the biological membrane with which they are associated
• Peripheral vision
  Peripheral vision
  
  Peripheral vision is a part of visual perception that occurs outside the very center of gaze. There is a broad set of non-central points in the field of view that is included in the notion of peripheral vision....
  , part of visual perception that occurs near the edges of the field of view

In national divisions

• Periphery countries
  Periphery countries
  
  In World Systems Theory, the periphery countries are the country which are not as developed as the semi-periphery countries and the core countries....
   includes nations that are not core countries - capitalist or industrialized nations
• Peripheries of Greece
  Peripheries of Greece
  
  The peripheries are the official regional administrative divisions of Greece. There are 13 peripheries , which are further subdivided into 54 Prefectures of Greece....
  , the 13 subnational subdivisions of that country, equivalent to regions
• The suburbs of a town or city

In fiction

• Periphery (BattleTech)
  Periphery (BattleTech)
  
  The Periphery is one of the three major regions of interstellar space in the fictional universe of BattleTech, a wargaming and science fiction franchise set mainly in the 31st century....
  , the region of interstellar space in the fictional universe of BattleTech
• The Periphery, that part of the Empire that lies on the very edge of the Milky Way Galaxy in Issac Asimov's Foundation series
• Periphery (film), a 2008 film

In music

In other uses

• Peripheral
  Peripheral
  
  A peripheral is a device attached to a host computer behind the chipset whose primary functionality is dependent upon the host, and can therefore be considered as expanding the hosts capabilities, while not forming part of the system's core computer architecture....
  , a device added to a host computer in order to expand its abilities
• Boundary parallel
  Boundary parallel
  
  In mathematics, a closed n-manifold embedding in an -manifold is boundary parallel if it can be isotopy onto a Boundary connected space....
  , a property of a mathematical submanifolds