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where the action pretends nothing's happening until it suddenly is.
means The outer edge or boundary of something — the area away from the center.
from From Greek 'periphereia,' literally 'a carrying around' — built from 'peri-' (around) and 'pherein' (to carry, bear). It reached English in the late 1300s by way of Latin 'peripheria,' first describing the circumference of a circle before it widened to mean any outer edge or fringe. The same 'pherein' that carries you around the periphery also shows up in words like 'metaphor' (to carry across) and 'amphora' (a vessel carried on both sides).
- vision trick
- peripheral sight catches motion better than detail or color
- word root
- Greek for carrying around, a circle's edge
- survival edge
- predators get spotted at the corner of your eye
- economic theory
- world-systems split nations into core and exploited periphery
- nerve geography
- peripheral nervous system handles everything beyond brain and spine
ring of fire — horseshoe of volcanoes surrounding the pacific ocean, containing 75% of earth's active volcanoes
sahel region — semi-arid zone south of the sahara desert stretching across africa from mauritania to chad
outer hebrides — chain of scottish islands off the northwest coast, separated from mainland by the minch strait