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Definitions: Laterality |
LateralityNoun1. Localization of function on either the right or left sides of the brain. 2. The property of using one hand more than the other. 3. Superior development of one side of the body. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | Behavioral manifestations of cerebral dominance in which there is preferential use and superior functioning of either the left or the right side, as in the preferred use of the right hand or right foot. (references) |
Medicine | Functional predominance of one side of an anatomically bilateral structure, such as greater proficiency in the use of one side of the body or language-related dominance of one cerebral hemisphere. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: LateralitySynonyms: dominance (n), handedness (n), lateralisation (n), lateralization (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Laterality | Noun: laterality; side, flank, quarter, lee; hand; cheek, jowl, jole, wing; profile; temple, parietes, loin, haunch, hip; beam. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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| "Laterality" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Laterality" is used about 55 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 55 | 45,713 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
laterality | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "laterality"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Danish | lateralitet. (various references) | ||||||||||
Dutch | lateraliteit. (various references) | ||||||||||
French | latéralité fonctionnelle, latéralité, latéralisation (lateralization). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Lateralitaet, Seitigkeit (right/left preference). (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | lateralizzazione. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ateralitylay sự dùng quen một tay sự phát triển hơn hẳn một bên người. (various references) | ||||||||||
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Words ending with "laterality": collaterality. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "laterality" (pronounced 'Lat`er*al"i*ty'): Ability, Abnormality, Abnormity, Aboriginality, Absorbability, Absorptivity, Abstrusity, Absurdity, Accendibility, Accentuality, Acceptability, Accessibility, Accidentality, Acclivity, Accomplicity, Accountability, Acerbity, Acetosity, Achromaticity, Acidity, Acquirability, Acrity, Activity, Actuality, Actuosity, Acuity, Addibility, Admirability, Admiralty, Admissibility, Adorability, Aduncity, Adverbiality, Adversity, Advisability, Aeriality, Affability, Affectibility, Agaty, Agility, Agreeability, Alacrity, Alamodality, Aldermanity, Algidity, Alibility, Alienability, Alkalinity, Allotropicity, Alterability, Alterity, Alternity, Amability, Ambidexterity, Ambiguity, Amenability, Amenity, Amiability, Amicability, Amissibility, Amity, Amorosity, Amovability, Anaplasty, Anfractuosity, Anglicity, Angularity, Angulosity, Anility, Animality, Animosity, Annuity, Annularity, Anonymity, Anteriority, Antiquity, Anxiety, Appetibility, Applicability, Apprehensibiity, Approachability, Appropinquity, Apriority, Aqueity, Aquosity, Aridity, Artificiality, Asininity, Asperity, Assiduity, Assignability, Assimilability, Associability, Astucity, Atomicity, Atrocity, Attainability, Attractability, Attractivity, Audacity, Audibility, Austerity, Authenticity, Authority, Autoplasty, Autostability, availability, Avidity, Banality, Barbarity, Basicity, Batty, BEAUTY, Benignity, Bestiality, Betty, Bibacity, Biblicality, Biformity, Bilaterality, Biplicity, Bipolarity, Bolty, Booty, BOUNTY, Brevity, Bridalty, Brutality, Butty, Caducity, Calamity, Calidity, Caliginosity, Callidity, Callosity, Caloricity, Canonicity, Canthoplasty, Canty, Capability, Capacity, Capillarity, Captivity, Cariosity, Carnality, Carnivoracity, Carnosity, Casualty, Catholicity, Catty, Causality, Cavity, Cecity, Celebrity, Celerity, Centrality, Centricity, Cerebricity, Certainty, Champerty, Changeability, Charity, Chastity, Cheiloplasty, Christianity, Circuity, Circularity, Circumstantiality, Civillty, Clandestinity, Clarity, Clericity, Clivity, Clotty, Coactivity, Coagulability, Coequality, Coessentiality, Coeternity, Cogitability, Cognoscibility, Cohesibility, Collectivity, Colloidality, Columnarity, Combustibility, Comicality, Comity, Commensality, Commensurability, Commodity, Commonalty, Commonty, Communicability, Community, Commutability, Compaternity, Compatibility, Complexity, Complicity, Comprehensibility, Compressibility, Concavity, Concentricity, Conceptibility, Concinnity, Condensability, Condignity, Conditionality, Conducibility, Conductibility, Conductivity, Confinity, Confluxibility, Conformability, Conformity, Confraternity, Confusability, Congeniality, Congruity, Conicality, Conjugality, Connaturality, Connubiality, Consanguinity, Consentaneity, Conspectuity, Conspicuity, Constitutionality, Consubstantiality, Contemporaneity, Contemptibility, Contiguity, Continuity, Contractibility, Contractility, Contrariety, Controllability, Conventionality, Convertibility, Convexity, Convicinity, Conviviality, Cordiality, Coreplasty, Corporality, Corporeality, Corporeity, Corrigibility, Corrodibility, Corrosibility, Corruptibility, Cosurety, Cotqueanity, County, Credibility, Credulity, Criminality, Crinosity, Crocodility, Crudity, Cruelty, Cullibility, Culpability, Cupidity, Curability, Curiality, Curiosity, Curvilinearity, Curvity, Cutty, Cylindricity, Cytty, Damnability, Debility, Debonairity, Deceptivity, Deciduity, Declivity, Deducibility, Defectibility, Defectuosity, Defensibility, Deflagrability, Deformity, Deiformity, Deity, Demisability, Democraty, Demonstrability, Demurity, Density, Deplorability, Depravity, Deputy, Descendibility, Desirability, Despicability, Destructibility, Deteriority, Determinability, Detestability, Devexity, Devotionality, Dexterity, Dextrality, Diaphaneity, Dibasicity, Dicacity, Didacticity, Difficulty, Difformity, Diffusibility, Diffusivity, Digestibility, Dignity, Dilatability, Dimensity, Dimity, Disability, Disassiduity, Discommodity, Discommunity, Disconformity, Discongruity, Discontinuity, Discoverability, Disensanity, Disformity, Dishonesty, Disingenuity, Disloyalty, Disparity, Disproperty, Disputacity, Disquantity, Disreputability, Disrespectability, Dissimilarity, Dissipativity, Dissociability, Dissolubility, Dissolvability, Distensibility, Disunity, Diuturnity, Diversifiability, Diversity, Divinity, Divisibility, Docility, Docity, Domesticity, Dotty, Doty, Doughty, Drasty, Duality, Dubiety, Dubiosity, Ductility, Duplicity, Durability, Durity, Duty, Dynasty, Ebriety, Ebriosity, Eccentricity, Edacity, Edibility, Educability, Efficacity, Effumability, Egality, Egoity, Elasticity, Electorality, Elementality, Elementarity, Eligibility, Ellipticity, Emotivity, Empty, Enmity, Enomoty, Enormity, Entierty, Entirety, Entity, Ephoralty, Epulosity, Equability, Equality, Equanimity, Equilibrity, Equity, Erectility, Essentiality, Eternity. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-i-l-l-r-t-t-y" | |
-2 letters: aerially, arillate, latterly. | |
-3 letters: alertly, allayer, areally, arietta, irately, lateral, literal, littery, littler, rattail, reality, tallier, tearily, tertial, tritely. | |
-4 letters: aerial, aerily, artily, atlatl, atrial, attire, elytra, lariat, lately, latria, latter, lealty, litter, little, lyrate, lyttae, rallye, ratite, rattle, rattly, realia, really, realty, retail, retial, rillet, tailer, taille, taller, tallit, tartly, telial, tetryl, tiller, tilter, treaty, yatter, yttria. | |
-5 letters: alary, alate, alert, aliya, allay, alley, altar, alter, areal, ariel, artal, artel, atilt, atria, attar, early, ileal, iller, irate, laari, laity, later, latte, layer, leary, liter, litre, lyart, lytta, rally, ratal, ratel, ratty, reata, relay, relit, retia, riata, riley, rille, riyal, talar, taler, tally, tarty, tatar, tater, teary, telia, telly, terai, tetra, tiara, tiler, titer, title, titre, trail, trait, treat, trial, trill, trite. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-i-l-l-r-t-t-y" | |
+2 letters: alterability, articulately, theatrically. | |
+3 letters: alternatively, collaterality, intrathecally, straitlacedly, strategically. | |
+4 letters: alliteratively, arithmetically, inalterability, inarticulately, multilaterally, theocratically, unalterability. | |
+5 letters: allotetraploidy, architecturally, bathymetrically, internationally, martensitically, orientationally, parenthetically, peripatetically, stereotaxically, therapeutically. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 61 74 65 72 61 6C 69 74 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-.. .- - . .-. .- .-.. .. - -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01100001 01110100 01100101 01110010 01100001 01101100 01101001 01110100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L a t e r a l i t y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0061 0074 0065 0072 0061 006C 0069 0074 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)46678671846778758691 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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