lateral meaning
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[ˈlæt.rəl] [ˈlæt.ɚ.əl] WLateral
- Lateral is a geometric term of location which may refer to:
- Lateral cricoarytenoid muscle
- Lateral (anatomy), an anatomical direction
- Lateral canal, a canal built beside another stream
- Lateral consonant, an ℓ-like consonant in which air flows along the sides of the tongue
- Lateral hiring, recruiting that targets employees of another organization
- Lateral mark, a sea mark used in maritime pilotage to indicate the edge of a channel
- Lateral pass, a type of pass in American and Canadian football
- Lateral release, a surgical procedure on the side of a kneecap
FR latéral 
- NounPLlaterals
- an object, such as a passage or a protrusion, that is situated on the side of something else.
- (linguistics) a sound produced through lateral pronunciation (such as /l/ in lateral).
- (American football) a lateral pass.
- (business) An employee hired for a position at the same organizational level or salary as their previous position.
- an object, such as a passage or a protrusion, that is situated on the side of something else.
- VerbSGlateralsPRlaterallingPRlateralingPT, PPlateralledPT, PPlateraled
- To move (oneself or something) in a lateral direction.
- (American football) To execute a lateral pass.
- To move (oneself or something) in a lateral direction.
- AdjectiveCOMmore lateralSUPmost lateral
- To the side; of or pertaining to the side.
- Instead of a promotion, I opted for a lateral move to a similar position in the marketing department.
- (anatomy) Pertaining to the left or right of the body; further from the midline.
- The medial side of the knee faces the other knee, while the outer side of the knee is lateral.
- A fish senses changes in hydrodynamic pressure with its lateral line.
- (linguistics) Pertaining to sounds 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 air passage.
- To the side; of or pertaining to the side.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- Sizing the acetabulum on an orthogonal lateral view of the acetabulum will provide additional insight on sizing, particularly in the nonhemispheric acetabulae.
- Subsequently, the cystohepatic triangle of patients, with head up in left lateral position, was separated.
- It receives input from lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) and thus exemplifies a trilaminar visual cortex that processes information from a well-defined spatio-temporal-chromatic visual input space.
- Used in the Beginning of Sentence
- Lateral semicircular canal function was also evaluated by vestibulonystagmography after bithermal caloric stimulation.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of lateral in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Adjectives
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Verbs
- Adjectives
- en laterals
- en laterally
- en lateraled
- en lateralize
- en lateralise
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "lateral" is an adjective. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb.