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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
peripteros .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The region surrounding a moving body, such as the wing of a bird or a gliding aëroplane, within which cyclic or vortical motion of the air occur.
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