to be found (e.g. unknown quantity in an equation); to be calculated
average value; mean value; mean; expectation
also known as; also called
criterion; standard; yardstick; rough estimate; approximation
experimental device; experimental equipment
to seal (letter); to prevent; to forbid; to block
to load (a gun, etc.); to charge; to put into (e.g. emotion, effort); to include (e.g. tax in a sales price); to hang over; to shroud
instability; insecurity; crankiness
collapse; crumbling; breaking down; (radioactive) decay; disintegration
weight; weight (e.g. of someone's words); burden; importance; significance
practical use; application; conjugation; inflection
opinion; point of view; visual point
a little; a bit; somewhat; slightly; rather
release; unleashing; liberation; deallocation (of computer memory)
common language; lingua franca; standard language (language variety understood throughout a country)
perplexity; difficult question; difficult problem
(large) compilation; culmination (of hard work)
Middle Ages (in Japan esp. the Kamakura and Muromachi periods); medieval times; mediaeval times
manuscript (book); written copy of a book; codex; transcription; copying
to pile up; to accumulate
(one's) figure; build; physique; style
ancient times; distant past; antiquity
present day; modern times; recent times; early modern period (in Japan, usu. from the Meiji Restoration until the end of World War II)
Bible; the Scriptures; Holy Writ
next; secondly; subsequently
describing; comparing; form; figure; personal appearance; one's face and figure
recent past; recent times; early modern period (from the Azuchi-Momoyama period to the end of the Edo period)
reason; reasoning power; (one's) sense
one's chief (literary) work; main work