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.
In international relations, multilateralism is a kind of alliance where multiple countries progress any given goal. Multilateralism was defined by Miles Kahler as international governance or global governance of the many, and its central principle was opposition bilateral discriminatory arrangements that were believed to enhance the leverage of the powerful over the weak and to increase international conflict. In 1990, Robert Keohane simply defined multilateralism as the practice of coord