Personally I leave it set to depth below keel, to which I add 1.5 metres for actual depth. There is a special corner of hell reserved for the person who then reset it to actual depth and did not tell me or put it back again! Fortunately I had already slowed right down thinking ... surprised there's this much water here as we came to a sudden stop.
Since lateral means side, multilateral means basically many-sided. The philosophy of multilateralism claims that the best solutions generally result when as many of the world's nations as possible are involved in discussions, and multilateralists often favor strengthening the United Nations.
Multinational state: country with two or more nationalities within its borders (e.g., US, Canada, Russia, Iran,). Multistate nation: nation that transcends the borders of two or more states (e.g., Kurds (Kurdistan), The Koreas,). Annexation: Incorporation of a territory into another geo-political entity.alkanization: The political term used when referring to the fragmentation or breakup of a region or country into smaller regions or countries. The term comes from the Balkan wars, where the country of Yugoslavia was broken up in to six countries between 1989 and 1992.