I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
peripheral vision (= your ability to see things to the side of you when you are looking ahead )
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She could read easily, but her peripheral vision was poor.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
area
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The government was determined to avoid confrontation with any Great Power over peripheral areas where significant economic development was out of the question.
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Now, however, it appeared there could be progress in several peripheral areas of dispute.
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This effect will be reinforced if the infrastructure of peripheral areas appears inadequate.
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Within consciousness one can experience a focal and a peripheral area .
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Yet, like the developing countries, the Western Isles are clearly a peripheral area .
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The rods are situated mainly in the peripheral area of the retina and they are activated in lower levels of lighting.
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To fix it locally, the part is finely focused and the peripheral area diffused, greyed and lost.
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Much of the peripheral area is former coal field rather than rural.
device
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The commonest peripheral devices are undoubtedly printers, with the majority being dot-matrix types, including some letter-quality machines.
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A third is transput instructions, requiring a field to specify one from a range of peripheral devices .
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Here the maintenance of the peripheral devices used to access and present the information will be essential.
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Currently, Sun customers pay service and support charges for each hardware configuration and an additional fee for each peripheral device .
information
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Although a definition of central information was attempted, no clear description of the types of peripheral information available was previously offered.
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This may have meant that these stimuli contained relatively little peripheral information .
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If films have little peripheral information in them then it may be that memory for such information is largely irrelevant.
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If there is little peripheral information in the non-risky exemplars, attention focusing would have no general effect on recognition sensitivity.
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What defines central versus peripheral information ?
vision
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This allows them to maintain the same panoramic peripheral vision over a wide range of light levels.
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I held Ellie in my peripheral vision , watching her long neck and the swell of her chest from across the room.
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I was taking it slowly when I caught a flash of red on the edge of my peripheral vision .
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I made do with peripheral vision , which, after all, is the next best thing.
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Use your peripheral vision widely when moving from place to place.
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Tracers from our own guns flowed in my peripheral vision .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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It is a society in which women's rights and concerns are still treated as peripheral .
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Stan plays a peripheral character in the series.
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The romance was peripheral to the movie's main plot.
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The U.S. State Department had only a peripheral role in the negotiations.
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Too much money is being spent on peripheral programs when our kids can't read or do basic math.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Although a definition of central information was attempted, no clear description of the types of peripheral information available was previously offered.
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But Mrs Clinton has said they prove that her involvement was peripheral .
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But those were the peripheral ingredients to the Bruins' second nonconference home loss in the past 46 games.
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During the recession some larger companies recognised a need to dispose of peripheral interests and apply the proceeds to their core businesses.
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So the first step in treating peripheral neuropathy is maintenance of tight control of blood glucose levels.
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Why, some might question, is there such an emphasis on something which is so peripheral to the New Testament?
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But harmonization will now concentrate on the essentials - the peripherals will be left to a process of mutual recognition by states.
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Destiny provides imaging controller software and hardware technology for printers and desktop peripherals.
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Soon preschoolers will get their shot using new peripherals and software developed jointly by Compaq Computer Corp. and Fisher-Price.
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The seven Super Compstation 10 models are each offered with a range of options for storage, monitors and other peripherals.
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The two pieces of add-on hardware, called peripherals, are pricey.
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There are also various peripherals at competitive prices too.
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These peripherals also come with their own software, so the accompanying bundle is better than most.