Lateral [adjective]

These lateral areas assess whether behaviors conform to social norms, and exert inhibitory control over inappropriate or maladaptive behavior.

As a result, roots grow longer, lateral roots develop, and more root hairs sprout.

Social pressure, technological innovations, and economic trends are all closing in on its main product, so it’s trying to make a lateral move into another bloated, polluting industry.

Meanwhile, he said, several dozen of the department’s more proactive-minded officers responded to the new rules and paperwork by simply deciding to “lateral out” to a job in another police department.

On July 18, responding to Musk’s call for job applicants who wanted to help “solve” brain and spinal injuries, a Twitter user asked if Neuralink could also help disabled people living with injuries, autism and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS.

The height of the tower from the level of the street is 105 feet, the slated towers over the lateral pediments being smaller.

While a person has the natural right also to the lateral support of his land, yet he cannot use it to the injury of another.

The owner of land adjoining a highway has no right to the lateral support of the soil of the street.

Sometimes these traps were weirs or by-washes, made of long lateral tanks of wicker-work.

The pillars are strengthened against lateral yielding by horizontal and diagonal bracing.