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lateralizing

lateralizing is the present participle and gerund of lateralize.

Meaning of lateralize

Verb

lateralize (third-person singular simple present lateralizes, present participle lateralizing, simple past and past participle lateralized)

  1. To localize a function to either the left or right side of the brain

Adjective

lateralizing (comparative more lateralizing, superlative most lateralizing)

  1. That lateralizes

Forms of lateralizing

comparativemore lateralizing
superlativemost lateralizing

Questions about lateralizing

What does lateralizing mean?
Lateralizing means that lateralizes.
What is lateralizing the present participle and gerund of?
Lateralizing is the present participle and gerund of lateralize.
What part of speech is lateralizing?
Lateralizing is an adjective.

Words near lateralizing in the dictionary

  1. lateralization
  2. lateralizations
  3. lateralize
  4. lateralized
  5. lateralizes
  6. lateralizing
  7. lateralled
  8. lateralling
  9. laterally
  10. lateralmost
  11. lateraloccipital

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lateralizing (page history and authors); lateralize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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