noun:

• contention (e.g. in LANs) - IT term

noun:

• human (in Ainu); one's fellow man; kin; comrade - From Ainu
• self-referential term used by the Ainu about their people ➜ アイヌ

noun:

• strongly pronounced consonant (esp. in Korean); tenseness - Linguistics term

noun / ~する noun:

• normalization (e.g. in floating-point representation system); normalisation; standardization; standardisation

noun:

• clay bed-warmer (cylindrical with holes in the sides, containing a brazier)

noun:

• (in hanafuda) a collection of the rain and three non-rain light cards ➜ 花札

noun:

• double marriage (in the same family); intermarriage

noun:

• square framing (in a house, temple, screen, etc.)

noun / ~する noun:

• using every trick (in the book)

noun:

• doline (sinkhole, in karst topography) - From German "Doline"

noun / ~する noun:

• ducking (e.g. in boxing)

noun:

• processing trade (importing all or part of raw and auxiliary materials, parts, components, accessories, and packaging materials in bond from a foreign company, and re-exporting the finished products after processing or assembly for distribution and sale by that foreign company)

noun:

• deciding match (in a competition for a cup (pennant))

noun:

• middle dot (typographical symbol used between parallel terms, names in katakana, etc.); full-stop mark at mid- character height; interpoint (interword separation)

noun:

• tawny nurse shark (Nebrius ferrugineus, species found in the Indo-Pacific)

noun:

• spadenose shark (Scoliodon laticaudus, species of requiem shark found in the Indo-West Pacific)

noun / ~する noun:

• negotiating for permission to film (in a specific location) ➜ ロケ

noun:

• automatic calling (e.g. in data network) - IT term

expression:

• (listed in) no particular order; arbitrary order; random order

expression:

• everything must go (e.g. in a sale)

noun:

• the four examinations (in Chinese medicine: seeing, hearing, asking, touching)

noun:

• mechanism used to lift an actor onto the stage (in kabuki)

noun:

• tagged (as in a tagged cell) - IT term

noun:

• synchronisation loss (in digital communications); synchronization loss

noun:

• Iyo dialect (spoken in Ehime prefecture)