lateral

• Waiting Ceevee, show me the nearest star on our lateral--the nearest one perpendicular to our line of travel Up and to your left. —  Asimov's SF - February2006
• Main supply line and fittings - usually one-half inch polyethylene tubing * Valves and controls - these may be hand or electronically controlled; electronic controls have the advantage of a timing device * One quarter inch polyethylene tubing, which is used for distributing the water from the half inch tubing to the plants, and is called a lateral * —  We Blog A Lot
• We need quick and immediate multi-lateral or uni-lateral intervention to save us from the imminent death. —  Mia Farrow
• But the biggest problem faced by sewer systems in California is the tiny pipe called the lateral. —  Museum Blogs
• The ice from the Vostok and Dome Concordia cores will have hence been subjected to long-term lateral stress and plenty of untraceable faulting, at all scales down to the molecular. —  newmatilda.com - Comments

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