Lateral

Adjective

 * 1) To the side; of or pertaining to the side.
 * 2)  Pertaining to the left or right of the body; further from the midline.
 * The medial side of the knee faces the other knee, while the outer side of the knee is lateral.
 * 1) Pertaining to the girth of an organ, rather than its thickness or length.
 * 2)  Pertaining to sounds that are generated by partially blocking the egress of the airstream with the tip of the tongue touching the alveolar ridge, leaving space on one or both sides of the occlusion for the air passage.

Antonyms

 * medial

Noun

 * 1) an object, such as a passage or a protrusion, that is situated on the side of something else
 * 2)  a sound produced through lateral pronunciation (such as /l/ in lateral)
 * 3)  a lateral pass

Verb

 * 1) To move (oneself or something) in a lateral direction
 * 2)  To execute a lateral pass

Related terms

 * bilateral
 * trilateral
 * quadrilateral
 * collateral
 * unilateral

Thesaurus
accented, allophone, alveolar, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, articulated, articulation, aspiration, assimilated, assimilation, back, barytone, bifacial, bilabial, bilateral, bowl, broad, cacuminal, cast, central, cerebral, change of pace, change-up, check, checked, chuck, chunk, close, consonant, consonantal, continuant, curve, dental, dihedral, diphthong, dissimilated, dissimilation, dorsal, downcurve, edge, epenthetic vowel, explosive, fastball, flanked, flanking, flat, fling, flip, forward pass, front, glancing, glide, glossal, glottal, glottalization, go crabwise, go sideways, guttural, handed, hard, heave, heavy, high, hurl, incurve, intonated, knuckleball, labial, labialization, labiodental, labiovelar, laryngeal, lateral pass, lateralize, lax, lee, leeward, light, lingual, liquid, lob, low, make leeway, manner of articulation, many-sided, mid, modification, monophthong, monophthongal, morphophoneme, multilateral, mute, muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized, next-beside, occlusive, one-sided, open, outcurve, oxytone, palatal, palatalized, parasitic vowel, pass, peak, peg, pharyngeal, pharyngealization, pharyngealized, phone, phoneme, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pitch, pitched, plosive, polyhedral, posttonic, prothetic vowel, put, quadrilateral, retroflex, rounded, screwball, segmental phoneme, semivowel, serve, service, shot-put, shy, side, sided, sideling, sidelong, sideslip, sidestep, sideward, sidewards, sideway, sideways, sidewise, sidle, sinker, skew, skid, skirting, slider, sling, soft, sonant, sonority, speech sound, spitball, spitter, stop, stopped, stressed, strong, surd, syllabic, syllabic nucleus, syllabic peak, syllable, tense, tetrahedral, thick, three-sided, throaty, throw, tonal, tonic, toss, transition sound, trihedral, trilateral, triphthong, triquetrous, twangy, two-sided, unaccented, unilateral, unrounded, unstressed, upcurve, veer, velar, vocable, vocalic, vocoid, voice, voiced, voiced sound, voiceless, voiceless sound, voicing, vowel, vowellike, weak, weather, wide, windward

Etymology
From lateralis: < latus:

Adjective

 * 1) lateral, to the side