LAT (lati, latu)

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Irregular inflected forms: lati    , latu   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does lat mean? 

• LAT (noun)
  The noun LAT has 1 sense:

1. a broad flat muscle on either side of the back

  Familiarity information: LAT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LAT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A broad flat muscle on either side of the back

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

lat; latissimus dorsi

Hypernyms ("lat" is a kind of...):

skeletal muscle; striated muscle (a muscle that is connected at either or both ends to a bone and so move parts of the skeleton; a muscle that is characterized by transverse stripes)

Holonyms ("lat" is a part of...):

back; dorsum (the posterior part of a human (or animal) body from the neck to the end of the spine)

 Context examples 

Prendergast threw us over a chart, told us that we were shipwrecked mariners whose ship had foundered in lat. 15º N. and long 25º W., and then cut the painter and let us go.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was in the old days of the Russian occupancy of Alaska, when the nineteenth century had run but half its course, that Negore fled after his fleeing tribe and came upon it this summer night by the head waters of the Pee-lat.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

They are endorsed outside, as you see, ‘Some particulars of the voyage of the bark Gloria Scott, from her leaving Falmouth on the 8th October, 1855, to her destruction in N. lat. 15º 20’, W. long. 25º 14’ on Nov. 6th.’

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)