Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A serranoid fish, Lates niloticus, found in the Nile. It attains a large size and is used for food.
- noun Side: used in some mathematical terms designating a line or diameter.
- noun A straight line drawn from the vertex of a conic at right angles to the transverse diameter, and having a length equal to the diameter of that circular section which is at the same distance from the vertex of the cone as is the plane of the conic.
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- noun medicine
Flank .
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Examples
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Foramen ad latus, per quod genitalia & excrementa emittuntur: Opening on the side, through which genitalia & excrements put out (?).
Archive 2009-01-01 AYDIN 2009
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Foramen ad latus, per quod genitalia & excrementa emittuntur: Opening on the side, through which genitalia & excrements put out?
Linnaeus's folly AYDIN 2009
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In general form and proportions the postcranial bones are similar to those in Pentaceratops sternbergi and are not as robust as those in Torosaurus latus or Triceratops horridus.
Archive 2008-11-01 ReBecca Foster 2008
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In general form and proportions the postcranial bones are similar to those in Pentaceratops sternbergi and are not as robust as those in Torosaurus latus or Triceratops horridus.
Finally..... ReBecca Foster 2008
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Videndum quae vestes, quis cultus, te deceat, quis in usu sit, utrum latus barbae, &c.
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If the force center is at a focus S of the ellipse, then the limit of (QR/QT2) is everywhere equal to half the constant latus rectum of the ellipse, and hence the force varies as
Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica Smith, George 2007
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Then at 3: 15 I am picking N and four friends up at ferrying (ferro, ferr, tuli, latus) them in my vehicle (veho ...) to E's house where they will set up for E's surprise birthday party.
readersguide Diary Entry readersguide 2006
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Porrigunt templa sua ab Oriente in Occidentem: et in latere Aquilonari faciunt cameram vnam quasi eorum exeuntem: vel aliter, Si est domus quadrati, in medio domus ad latus aquilonare intercludunt vnam cameram in loco chori.
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Israel sciebat vnusquisque ad quam regionem tabernaculi deberet figere tentoria: ita ipsi sciunt ad quod latus curiæ debeant se collocare, quando ipsi deponunt domus.
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Istorum Iugurum sacerdotes habent talem habitum quocunque vadunt: semper sunt in tunicis croceis satis strictis accincti desuper recte sicut Franci: et habent pallium super humerum sinistrum descendens inuolutum per pectus et dorsum ad latus dextrum sicut diaconus portans casulam in quadragesima.
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