About The Word Lateral
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Lateral
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What's The Definition Of Lateral?
[n] a pass to a receiver upfield from the passer
[adj] lying away from the median and sagittal plane of a body; "lateral lemniscus" [adj] situated at or extending to the side; "the lateral branches of a tree"; "shot out sidelong boughs"- Tennyson Synonyms | Synonyms for Lateral: distal | lateral pass | side(a) | sidelong Related Terms | Find terms related to Lateral: accented | allophone | alveolar | apical | apico-alveolar | apico-dental | articulated | articulation | aspiration | assimilated | assimilation | back | barytone | bifacial | bilabial | bilateral | bowl | broad | cacuminal | cast | central | cerebral | change of pace | change-up | check | checked | chuck | chunk | close | consonant | consonantal | continuant | curve | dental | dihedral | diphthong | dissimilated | dissimilation | dorsal | downcurve | edge | epenthetic vowel | explosive | fastball | flanked | flanking | flat | fling | flip | forward pass | front | glancing | glide | glossal | glottal | glottalization | go crabwise | go sideways | guttural | handed | hard | heave | heavy | high | hurl | incurve | intonated | knuckleball | labial | labialization | labiodental | labiovelar | laryngeal | lateral pass | lateralize | lax | lee | leeward | light | lingual | liquid | lob | low | make leeway | manner of articulation | many-sided | mid | modification | monophthong | monophthongal | morphophoneme | multilateral | mute | muted | narrow | nasal | nasalized | next-beside | occlusive | one-sided | open | outcurve | oxytone | palatal | palatalized | parasitic vowel | pass | peak | peg | pharyngeal | pharyngealization | pharyngealized | phone | phoneme | phonemic | phonetic | phonic | pitch | pitched | plosive | polyhedral | posttonic | prothetic vowel | put | quadrilateral | retroflex | rounded | screwball | segmental phoneme | semivowel | serve | service | shot-put | shy | side | sided | sideling | sidelong | sideslip | sidestep | sideward | sidewards | sideway | sideways | sidewise | sidle | sinker | skew | skid | skirting | slider | sling | soft | sonant | sonority | speech sound | spitball | spitter | stop | stopped | stressed | strong | surd | syllabic | syllabic nucleus | syllabic peak | syllable | tense | tetrahedral | thick | three-sided | throaty | throw | tonal | tonic | toss | transition sound | trihedral | trilateral | triphthong | triquetrous | twangy | two-sided | unaccented | unilateral | unrounded | unstressed | upcurve | veer | velar | vocable | vocalic | vocoid | voice | voiced | voiced sound | voiceless | voiceless sound | voicing | vowel | vowellike | weak | weather | wide | windward See Also | pass | passing | passing game | passing play Lateral In Webster's Dictionary \Lat"er*al\, a. [L. lateralis, fr. latus, lateris, side:
cf. F. lat['e]ral.]
1. Of or pertaining to the sides; as, the lateral walls of a
house; the lateral branches of a tree.
2. (Anat.) Lying at, or extending toward, the side; away from
the mesial plane; external; -- opposed to {mesial}.
3. Directed to the side; as, a lateral view of a thing.
{Lateral cleavage} (Crystallog.), cleavage parallel to the
lateral planes.
{Lateral equation} (Math.), an equation of the first degree.
[Obs.]
{Lateral line} (Anat.), in fishes, a line of sensory organs
along either side of the body, often marked by a distinct
line of color.
{Lateral pressure} or {stress} (Mech.), a pressure or stress
at right angles to the length, as of a beam or bridge; --
distinguished from longitudinal pressure or stress.
{Lateral strength} (Mech.), strength which resists a tendency
to fracture arising from lateral pressure.
{Lateral system} (Bridge Building), the system of horizontal
braces (as between two vertical trusses) by which lateral
stiffness is secured.
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