periphery

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Additional points near the periphery are also advantageous for some tripod work where you have a carefully composed frame you wish to preserve and the subject nears the edge of the frame.

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  1. noun A line that forms the boundary of an area; a perimeter. See Synonyms at circumference.
  2. noun The surface of a solid.
  3. noun The outermost part or region within a precise boundary.
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  • In the distance, the suburb's periphery was already falling to agriculture. —  Gardner Dozois - The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection (2006)
  • A photographer moved round the periphery, his flash freezing forever the last public appearance of whoever was lying dead on the wet clay. —  Common Murder—Val McDermid - Lindsay Gordon 02
  • But the crowd at the periphery was fleeing, swarming along the various roads and lanes, dispersing across the fields. —  Languages of Pao The
  • He was no longer interested in the center of Paris but in the periphery, and one of the addresses was on the edge of a shanty-town built out of tin cans and boxes. —  Maigret and the Killer - Georges Simenon - 98
  • To suggest the shockwave it would cause on her body I selected, feathered and applied carefully controlled and restrained blur to parts of her body at the periphery -- notably the arms and legs. —  World of SL
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  1. Middle English periferie, from Medieval Latin periferia, from Late Latin peripherīa, from Greek periphereia, from peripherēs, carrying around : peri-, peri- + pherein, to carry; see bher-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English periferie; from Middle English periferie, from Old French peripherie, French périphérie = Spanish periferia = Pg.peripheria = Italian periferia, from Late Latin peripheria, Middle Latin also periferia, from Greek περιφέρεια, the line around a circle, circumference, part of a circle, an arc, the outer surface, from περιφερής, moving around, round, circular, from περιφέρειν, carry around, move around, from περί, around, + φέρειν = English bear.
 

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