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lateral [′lad·ə·rəl]

(anatomy)

At, pertaining to, or in the direction of the side; on either side of the medial vertical plane.

(engineering)

In a gas distribution or transmission system, a pipe branching away from the central, primary part of the system.

(mining engineering)

In horizon mining, a hard heading branching off a horizon along the strike of the seams.

A horizontal mine working.

lateral sewer

A sewer which discharges into a branch or other sewer and has no other common sewer tributary to it.

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No references found			For an instant he appeared, in this frame of granite, like the angel of chaos, but in pushing back the lateral rocks, he lost his point of support, for the monolith which weighed upon his shoulders, and the boulder, pressing upon him with all its weight, brought the giant down upon his knees. The Man in the Iron Mask by Dumas, Alexandre View in context This dugong, which also bears the name of the halicore, closely resembles the manatee; its oblong body terminated in a lengthened tail, and its lateral fins in perfect fingers. 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea by Verne, Jules View in context The peak on which the captain had taken his stand commanded the whole Wind River chain; which, in fact, may rather be considered one immense mountain, broken into snowy peaks and lateral spurs, and seamed with narrow valleys. The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U.S.A., in the Rocky Mountains and the far West by Irving, Washington View in context			Latency Period latent Latent Agrarian Overpopulation latent bud Latent Criminality latent defect latent failure latent heat latent heat of fusion latent heat of sublimation latent heat of vaporization latent Herschel effect latent homosexuality latent image latent instability latent load latent period Latent Photographic Image latent root latent virus latent-virus infection later later crudus Later Le dynasty laterad lateral lateral aberration lateral acceleration lateral accretion lateral area lateral axis lateral buckling lateral bud lateral buttress lateral chromatic aberration lateral compliance lateral cone lateral controller lateral deflection angle lateral deflection setting lateral deviation lateral displacement lateral drift lateral erosion lateral extensometer lateral face lateral fault lateral flow spillway lateral hermaphroditism lateral inversion lateral jump			Later chin dynasty later crudus Later Dude Later Edit Later Gator later generations Later Han Later Han later in time Later Jin Later Jin dynasty Later Le Dynasty Later Life Adviser Accreditation Later Life Training later meditation later on later thought Later with Bob Costas Later with Bob Costas Later with Bob Costas Later with Greg Kinnear Later with Greg Kinnear Later with Greg Kinnear Later Years Later Years Later Years Later, alligator laterad laterad laterad lateral lateral abdominal region lateral aberration lateral aberration lateral abscess lateral abscess lateral abscess lateral acceleration Lateral Acceleration for Rollover lateral accretion lateral aids lateral aids lateral aids lateral ampullar nerve Lateral and subjacent support lateral antagonism lateral antebrachial cutaneous nerve lateral antebrachial cutaneous nerve Lateral Antebrachial Cutaneous Neuropathy Lateral anterior thoracic Lateral antibrachial cutaneous Lateral antibrachial cutaneous nerve lateral aortic node lateral aperture of the fourth ventricle Lateral Area Lateral Area Lateral ARTS lateral atlantoaxial joint lateral axis Lateral Bipolar Junction Transistor lateral body folds

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