Word Meanings - LATERAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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 , cleavage parallel to the lateral planes. -- Lateral equation

Additional info about word: LATERAL

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 , cleavage parallel to the lateral planes. -- Lateral equation , an equation of the first degree. -- Lateral line , 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 , a pressure or stress at right angles to the length, as of a beam or bridge; -- distinguished from longitudinal pressure or stress. -- Lateral strength , strength which resists a tendency to fracture arising from lateral pressure. -- Lateral system , the system of horizontal braces by which lateral stiffness is secured. (more info) 1. Of or pertaining to the sides; as, the lateral walls of a house; the lateral branches of a tree.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of LATERAL)

• Oblique
• Divergent
• diagonal
• lateral
• angular

Related words: (words related to LATERAL)

• ANGULARITY
  The quality or state of being angular; angularness.
• LATERAL
  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 , cleavage parallel to the lateral planes. -- Lateral equation
• OBLIQUENESS
  Quality or state of being oblique.
• LATERALLY
  By the side; sidewise; toward, or from, the side.
• DIAGONAL
  Joining two not adjacent angles of a quadrilateral or multilateral figure; running across from corner to corner; crossing at an angle with one of the sides. Diagonal bond , herringbone work. See Herringbone, a. -- Diagonal built , built by forming
• LATERALITY
  The state or condition of being lateral.
• OBLIQUE-ANGLED
  Having oblique angles; as, an oblique-angled triangle.
• ANGULARLY
  In an angular manner; with of at angles or corners. B. Jonson.
• DIAGONALLY
  In a diagonal direction.
• OBLIQUE
  oblique; cf. licinus bent upward, Gr 1. Not erect or perpendicular; neither parallel to, nor at right angles from, the base; slanting; inclined. It has a direction oblique to that of the former motion. Cheyne. 2. Not straightforward; indirect;
• DIVERGENT
  Causing divergence of rays; as, a divergent lens. 3. Fig.: Disagreeing from something given; differing; as, a divergent statement. Divergent series. See Diverging series, under Diverging. (more info) 1. Receding farther and farther from each
• OBLIQUELY
  In an oblique manner; not directly; indirectly. "Truth obliquely leveled." Bp. Fell. Declining from the noon of day, The sun obliquely shoots his burning ray. Pope His discourse tends obliquely to the detracting from others. Addison.
• ANGULARNESS
  The quality of being angular.
• ANGULAR
  1. Relating to an angle or to angles; having an angle or angles; forming an angle or corner; sharp-cornered; pointed; as, an angular figure. 2. Measured by an angle; as, angular distance. 3. Fig.: Lean; lank; raw-boned; ungraceful; sharp and stiff
• SUBPENTANGULAR
  Nearly or approximately pentangular; almost pentangular.
• INANGULAR
  Not angular.
• SEPTANGULAR
  Heptagonal.
• EQUIANGULAR
  Having equal angles; as, an equiangular figure; a square is equiangular. Equiangular spiral. See under Spiral, n. -- Mutually equiangular, applied to two figures, when every angle of the one has its equal among the angles of the other.
• TRIANGULAR
  Oblong or elongated, and having three lateral angles; as, a triangular seed, leaf, or stem. Triangular compasses, compasses with three legs for taking off the angular points of a triangle, or any three points at the same time. -- Triangular crab
• RECTANGULARITY
  The quality or condition of being rectangular, or right-angled.
• QUADRANGULAR
  Having four angles, and consequently four sides; tetragonal. -- Quad*ran"gu*lar*ly, adv.
• QUINQUANGULAR
  Having five angles or corners.
• SUPRA-ANGULAR
  See SURANGULAR
• ORTHODIAGONAL
  The diagonal or lateral axis in a monoclinic crystal which is at right angles with the vertical axis.
• COLLATERALLY
  1. Side by side; by the side. These pulleys . . . placed collaterally. Bp. Wilkins. 2. In an indirect or subordinate manner; indirectly. The will hath force upon the conscience collaterally and indirectly. Jer. Taylor. 3. In collateral relation;
• SUBANGULAR
  Slightly angular.
• TRIANGULARES
  The triangular, or maioid, crabs. See Illust. under Maioid, and Illust. of Spider crab, under Spider.
• BRACHYDIAGONAL
  Pertaining to the shorter diagonal, as of a rhombic prism. Brachydiagonal axis, the shorter lateral axis of an orthorhombic crystal.
• DECANGULAR
  Having ten angles.