An imaginary circle surrounding the earth, in whose periphery either the heavenly body or the center of the heavenly body's epicycle was supposed to be carried round.
A wheel turned by persons or animals, by treading, climbing, or pushing with the feet, upon its periphery or face.
One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.
A screw cut on a solid whose sides are arcs of the periphery of a wheel into the teeth of which the screw is intended to work.
A projection from the periphery of a revolving piece, acting as a cam to lift another piece.
A mill worked by persons treading upon steps on the periphery of a wide wheel having a horizontal axis.
Specimens from the north-central periphery of the geographic range of Z.
Populations at the southern periphery of its range are difficult to separate from populations at the northern periphery of the range of Z.
If there is such an "organization" on the periphery of this globe, I should like to see him.
Peter Schemmel, and accompanied by a woman whose peripheryit would be vain to compute by inches, singing, "I'd be a butterfly.
Not only must the repressed materials be included in the periphery of the unconscious, but also all the psychic material that does not reach the threshold of consciousness.
He who continues to tread this path of the realisation of his unconscious self, necessarily transposes the content of the personal unconscious into consciousness, whereby the periphery of the personality is considerably enlarged.
At and near the periphery of the range, especially in that part which adjoins the range of D.
In general, the most primitive kinds of Dipodomys ordii occur at the periphery of the range of the species.
The ends of the T heads are then welded together to constitute the periphery of the wheel or inner tire; and little wedge-form pieces are inserted where there is any deficiency of iron.
We indicate only the inner periphery of a circle it is impossible to finish, and then retrace our steps.
The former mode commonly points to tradition; the latter always to invention.
These are generally situated on the periphery of the lungs and in the lower lobe, although in some cases they are found imbedded deeply in the pulmonary tissue.
Respecting the measures adopted with a view to checking the extension of the disease at the periphery of the patch, the belief in such a possibility has been wellnigh abandoned.
They were present at theperiphery of cheesy nodules rather than at the centre.
There have also been observed opacity of the cornea, sloughing of the conjunctival epithelium, suppurative infiltration into the periphery of the vitreous body, and deposits of pus in Petit's canal and in the anterior and posterior chambers.
The central portion is firm and elastic to the touch, the periphery doughy, and pressure here often produces pitting.
On section there was hemorrhagic infiltration, "usually circumscribed in extent and situated around the periphery of the adrenal cortex.
Fatty infiltration is, however, very common in the centre as well as in the peripheryof the lobules.
Emboli conveyed by the portal vein will be arranged with a certain regularity and through the substance of the liver, whilst those coming from some part of the systemic circulation tend to form at the periphery under the capsule.
The ulcers extend steadily in periphery and in depth, and coalesce by necrosis of intervening mucous membrane.
Detachment of the necrosed segments of mucous membrane takes place by gradual exfoliation from periphery to centre.
The fatty change in the hepatic cells proceeds in a certain methodical manner from the cells at the periphery of each lobule to the centre.
But as the increase in size is not rapid, although continuous, if the cysts are situated at the periphery and adjacent to the capsule, they may be present for many months without causing any distinct symptoms.
He noticed, however, that a banquette of earth, rammed hard, ran around the inside periphery of the walls, affording vantage for the defenders to discharge their arrows and other missiles over the parapet.
A man might walk from break of day until darkness and yet not complete the periphery of its boundary-lines, but the palisaded portion included only the arable land and home paddocks and was of comparatively limited extent.
A nail, N, is placed at the end of the arm so that the point can enter each of the punch marks on the periphery or circumference of the circle.
The buckets being evenly spaced on the periphery of the wheel, only one at a time receives the force of the jet, the one in front and the one behind clearing the jet.
Steam is admitted to the nozzle block A, is expanded in the nozzles and discharged against a portion of the periphery of the impulse wheel.
In a Curtis turbine it is not necessary to use the whole periphery of the first stage for low pressure steam nozzles.
Any impulse sent from the periphery to the brain must be conveyed along a perfectly definite channel; the response from the brain, sent out to the peripheral muscles, must traverse an equally definite and altogether different course.
Now they would keep their eyes open along the periphery of the inhabited country.
The other surface consisted of a small pad which rested with frictional pressure on the periphery of the drum.
Instead of the two small contact wheels, however, a projecting arm carried an iron pin or stylus, so arranged that its point would normally impinge upon the periphery of the drum.
We reached the outer periphery of the hills late in the afternoon, and camped on the margin of the pale-green ocean of feathery "toa.
It is, on the contrary, divided by vertical partitions into a number of distinct chambers, converging from the periphery to the centre.
Turning with the shaft, the vessel retains the oil in the periphery so that the feed in the previously mentioned channel in the connecting-rod head, is constant.
The periphery is slightly rounded in order the better to guide the belt when applied to the wheel.
He considered that the suspension of the liquid is due to "the attraction of the periphery or section of the surface of the tube to which the upper surface of the water is contiguous and coheres.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "periphery" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
