Specifically, in botany, of diatoms, that aspect in which the surface of the valve is turned toward the observer: same as valve-view.(noun)
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Use "side-view" in a sentence
"He glanced in his side-view mirror and watched Holly walk up the steps and across the porch and disappear inside of that run-down house."
"They speed down one narrow side street, turn abruptly, then hurtle down another, but these maneuvers are not enough for them to elude her pursuers; she can see their headlights in the side-view mirrors, vanishing as they round a corner, only to reappear a split second later."
"All the barrier islands have the geographic weakness of jutting out into the Atlantic like the side-view mirror of a car, a location that's frequently been in the path of destructive storms over the decades."