of or pertaining to the side; situated at, proceeding from, or directed to a side

a lateral view.

pertaining to or entailing a position, office, etc., that is different but equivalent or roughly equivalent in status, as distinguished from a promotion or demotion

a lateral move.

Phonetics . articulated so that the breath passes on either or both sides of the tongue, as l.

a lateral part or extension, as a branch or shoot.

Mining . a small drift off to the side of a principal one.

Phonetics . a lateral speech sound.

Football . lateral pass.

Football . to throw a lateral pass.

to move laterally or sideways

migrating birds lateraling down into Cape May.

Football . to throw (the ball) in a lateral pass.

adjective

centered , central

adjective

crabwise , edgeways , flanking , oblique , side , side-by-side , sidelong , sideward , sidewise , skirting , pass , sideways