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Meaning of laterally

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  laterally
      adv 1: to or by or from the side; "such women carry in their
             heads kinship knowledge of six generations depth and
             extending laterally among consanguineal kin as far as the
             grandchildren of second cousin"
      2: in a lateral direction or location; "the body is spindle-
         shaped and only slightly compressed laterally"

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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