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Lateral Definition And Meaning
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.

Lateral Definition And Meaning

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

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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