noun:

• economy of scale; cost saving or benefit from having a larger scale (e.g. of production) - From English "scale merit" ➜ 規模効果

noun:

• Viverridae; family of viverrids (e.g. civets)

noun:

• making the numbers balance; fixing the numbers; number-juggling; making up the numbers (e.g. to form a majority); taking tally; number-crunching

noun:

• non-support; disapproval (e.g. in an opinion poll)

noun / noun or verb acting prenominally / ~の noun:

• prefabricated; knockdown; demountable (e.g. motor); flatpack (furniture)

noun:

• contracted sound; palatalised sound (e.g. Japanese morae with small kana) - e.g. きゃ - Linguistics term

noun:

• long homeroom; occasional or periodic extra long registration class or assembly in a school (e.g. for activities not related to class work) ➜ ホームルーム

noun:

• geisha; woman who entertains (e.g. by playing the shamisen) for her living - obscure term ➜ 歌妓

noun:

• speedrun; playing through a video game for additional challenge (e.g. as quickly as possible, to obtain the highest score, without using a certain weapon, etc.)

godan ~す verb:

• to whip an egg; to scramble (e.g. an egg)

noun:

• nil return; nothing offered (e.g. in wage negotiations)

noun:

• boiling with salt; boiling in salty water (e.g. vegetables) ➜ 塩煮【しおに】

noun:

• struggling; pawing (e.g. horses' hooves)

adverb / ~と adverb:

• walking on frost; crunching (e.g. on gravel) - onomatopoeia
• lots of coins or jewels - onomatopoeia
• cutting into large pieces; loosely weaving - onomatopoeia

adjectival noun:

• large (pieces, stitches, sand grains, etc.) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• courier; smuggler; carrier (e.g. of illegal drugs); trafficker

noun:

• umbellate inflorescence; umbel (i.e. flower with a large number of flowers growing radially from a common center)

~の noun:

• high frequency; high-pass (e.g. filter)

noun:

• vote-assignment; assigning votes (e.g. to UN member countries)

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to stay overnight; to stop (e.g. at a hotel)

noun / ~の noun:

• time sharing; time-division (e.g. multiplexing) - IT term

noun / ~する noun:

• flat display; stacking something flat (e.g. lying on its side, faceup)

noun / ~する noun:

• discord; breaking up (e.g. friendship)

noun:

• female announcer; woman who makes public announcements (e.g. from an election campaign truck)

noun:

• disaster hood; protective hood worn during earthquakes and other disasters (e.g. to protect from falling objects)

ichidan verb:

• to blink repeatedly; to wave repeatedly (e.g. a paper fan)