Vocabulary

sliding central strip (of a slide rule); slide strip

slide rule

electronic desk calculator

fraternal religious group formed by Ise Shrine worshippers

low-ranking priest

writings about the gods

equinoctial ceremony held by the emperor at the shrine of imperial ancestors

kagura song

clapper (two long pieces of wood that are clapped together; used in gagaku, etc.)

genre of Heian-period Japanese court music (primarily consisting of gagaku-styled folk melodies)

mourning; mourning period

Chinese chess; xiangqi

xiangqi; Chinese chess

operating voltage; working voltage

sliding or moving along a smooth surface with continuous contact on that surface

rented room

traditional Japanese steel made from iron sand (esp. for use in swords)

leading-in tube; supply conduit

February and August (months when business is generally at its slowest)

eighteen

ivory palm (Phytelephas macrocarpa)

to be fed up (with); to be tired (of); to be bored (with); to be unable to bear

tracing paper

traverse survey

palmitic acid

megapode (any bird of family Megapodiidae, incl. brush turkeys and mallee fowl); mound builder

homothetic ratio; similitude ratio; ratio of magnification; dilation factor; scale factor

Nixon shock (1971 economic measures)

anthropology

anthropomorphism

anthropological argument (one of Descartes' ontological arguments for the existence of God)

binding energy

gas dynamics

relative metabolic rate

mechanics of materials; material mechanics

rigid body dynamics

material; ingredient

chimney

fireplace; mantlepiece

chimney (narrow cleft used to climb a rock face)