lateral Definition

of or relating to the side

situated on, directed toward, or coming from the side

extending from side to side

a branch from the main part (as in an irrigation or electrical system)

a pass in football thrown parallel to the line of scrimmage or in a direction away from the opponent's goal

a lateral speech sound

to throw a lateral

a bud that develops in the axil between a petiole and a stem

a canal along the side of a fish containing pores that open into tubes supplied with sense organs sensitive to low vibrations; also : one of these tubes or sense organs

a method for solving problems by making unusual or unexpected connections between ideas

a rare progressive degenerative fatal disease affecting the motor neurons, usually beginning in middle age, and characterized especially by increasing and spreading muscular weakness and atrophy —abbreviation ALS—called also Lou Gehrig's disease