peripheral device

Questions about peripheral device

What does peripheral device mean?

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

What is another word for peripheral device?

Close synonyms include peripheral, computer peripheral. 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 peripheral device a common word?

peripheral device 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.