Wordnet 3.0
ADVERB (2)
1.
to or by or from the side;
- Example: "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;
- Example: "the body is spindle-shaped and only slightly compressed laterally"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Laterally \Lat"er*al*ly\, adv.
By the side; sidewise; toward, or from, the side.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
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"