adjective. Of, relating to, or situated at or on the side.

adjective. Of or constituting a change within an organization or hierarchy to a position at a similar level, as in salary or responsibility, to the one being left.

adjective. Of, relating to, or being a sound produced by breath passing along one or both sides of the tongue.

noun. A lateral part, projection, passage, or appendage.

noun. A lateral pass.

noun. A lateral sound, such as (l).

intransitive verb. To execute a lateral pass.

intransitive verb. To pass (the ball) sideways or backward.

noun. A small ditch or distributary from a main or principal irrigation ditch.

noun. plural In the pelecypod mollusks, the lateral hinge-teeth, those lying at the sides or ends of the hinge-plate, anterior or posterior to the median or cardinal teeth.

Of or pertaining to the side; situated at, proceeding from, or directed to a side: as, a lateral projection; lateral shoots or branches; a lateral view.

In anatomy and zoology, situated on either side of the median vertical longitudinal plane of the body; lying laterad of the meson: as, the lateral ventricles of the brain; the lateral line of a fish; the lateral margin of a thorax, elytrum, or abdomen.

In conchology, specifically, situated on either side of the hinge: contrasted with cardinal: as, the lateral tooth of a bivalve. Also admedian.

In botany, belonging to or borne upon the side of any organ: sometimes contrasted with terminal (as, lateral buds), sometimes with medial (as, lateral ribs or nerves of a leaf or glume).

In physics and mech., at right angles to a line of motion or of strain.

noun. In conch.:

noun. A lateral or admedian tooth of a bivalve, as distinguished from a cardinal tooth. See cut under bivalve.

noun. One of the uncini, or uncinal teeth of the radula.

noun. A side branch or division of anything; a part projecting from one side; specifically, in a grape-vine, one of the side shoots which spring from the axils of the leaves of a main shoot.

noun. A short pass to a receiver who is upfield from the passer, i.e. is behind the passer relative to the direction of the passer's goal.

noun. A part or extension of something that points sideways, as a drift in a mine that goes to the side from the main one.

adjective. Of or pertaining to the sides

adjective. Lying at, or extending toward, the side; away from the mesial plane; external; -- opposed to mesial.

adjective. Directed to the side.

adjective. cleavage parallel to the lateral planes.

adjective. an equation of the first degree.

adjective. in fishes, a line of sensory organs along either side of the body, often marked by a distinct line of color.

adjective. a pressure or stress at right angles to the length, as of a beam or bridge; -- distinguished from longitudinal pressure or stress.

adjective. undefined

adjective. strength which resists a tendency to fracture arising from lateral pressure.

adjective. the system of horizontal braces (as between two vertical trusses) by which lateral stiffness is secured.

verb. To pass the footbal to a receiver who is behind the passer; to make a lateral pass.

adjective. To the side; of or pertaining to the side.

adjective. Pertaining to the left or right of the body; further from the midline.

adjective. this sense?) (botany) Pertaining to the girth of an organ, rather than its thickness or length.

adjective. Pertaining to sounds that are generated by partially blocking the egress of the airstream with the tip of the tongue touching the alveolar ridge, leaving space on one or both sides of the occlusion for the air passage.

noun. an object, such as a passage or a protrusion, that is situated on the side of something else

noun. a sound produced through lateral pronunciation (such as /l/ in lateral)

noun. a lateral pass

verb. To move (oneself or something) in a lateral direction

verb. To execute a lateral pass

adjective. situated at or extending to the side

adjective. lying away from the median and sagittal plane of a body

noun. a pass to a receiver upfield from the passer

"On the lateral side may be recognised the _lateral process (external tuberosity) _ of the calcaneus; the _trochlear process (peroneal tubercle) _ on the same bone; the _cuboid_; and the prominent base of the _fifth metatarsal_."

medial  

farm lateral  lateral aberration  lateral axes  lateral callosities of the metanotum  lateral chain  

distal  lateral pass  side  stress  

bilateral  collateral  quadrilateral  trilateral  unilateral  

pass  passing  passing game  passing play  

bilateral  collateral  multilateral  plurilateral  trilateral  

angular  anterior  central  diagonal  dorsal  

accented  allophone  alveolar  apical  apico-alveolar  

laterals