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A periphery is the outer limit of something, so peripheral relates to something on the edge. For computers that means the stuff that works with it but is not a part of it. Like a printer.

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"Peripheral" means "on the outside edges," e.g., peripheral vision is where you can just see something on your left or right side.

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