computer peripheral

1. 1.

   electronic equipment external to the circuit board that contains the CPU of a computer

   “disk drives and printers are important peripherals”

   Synonymsperipheralperipheral device

   Broaderelectronic equipment

   Narrowerdata input deviceoutput deviceprinter

   Part ofcomputer

   computer science

Questions about computer peripheral

What does computer peripheral mean?

computer peripheral means "electronic equipment external to the circuit board that contains the CPU of a computer".

What is another word for computer peripheral?

Close synonyms include peripheral, peripheral device. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is computer peripheral a common word?

computer peripheral is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.