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Generally speaking, it's anythign that is not attached to the computer itself normally (like a hard drive, CPU etc.) and must interface with the computer another way such as through USB cables, speaker cables, bluetooth connections or any other kind of cable/wireless connection. Examples would be keyboards, speakers, bluetooth speakers, audio interfaces or external sound cards.

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