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lateral
lateral is a 7-letter English word with 6 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Of or pertaining to the sides; as, the lateral walls of a house; the lateral branches of a tree. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 9 · 6 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Of or pertaining to the sides; as, the lateral walls of a house; the lateral branches of a tree.
- 2adjective
Lying at, or extending toward, the side; away from the mesial plane; external; -- opposed to mesial.
- 3adjective
Directed to the side; as, a lateral view of a thing.
- 4noun
a pass to a receiver upfield from the passer
- 5adjective
lying away from the median and sagittal plane of a body
"lateral lemniscus"
- 6adjective
situated at or extending to the side- Tennyson
"the lateral branches of a tree"
"shot out sidelong boughs"
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