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View definitions for laterally

laterally

adverb as in to the side

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"The pedalling feels very different and the overall sensations of moving on the water, either laterally or vertically, is wildly different from any kind of cycling," Lambie says.

From BBC

For example, someone nervous about attempting to assassinate one of the most powerful people in the world might cause the shot to break wide laterally, clipping the ear instead of hitting the center of the head, where they were aiming.

From Slate

When you punch a nonauxetic material, it gets thinner and expands laterally.

"Our work was unprecedented in that we synthesized a 2D material with two isotopes of the same element but with different masses, and we joined the isotopes laterally in a controlled and gradual manner in a single monolayer crystal," Xiao said.

"The sinking of carbon-rich particles has always been thought to be the only answer to this question. But what we found is that tiny, single-celled organisms get caught in the oceanic flow to form intrusions… Such intrusions are significant features of the subtropical ocean -- while they extend tens of kilometers laterally, they also descend hundreds of meters in the vertical, bringing cells and carbon with them. This mechanism has been unaccounted in previous estimates of carbon transport."

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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