half-

an equinox

(historical) The Meiji era: the Japanese era beginning in 1868 and ending in 1912.

(grammar) The Classical Japanese bigrade verb conjugation class, consisting of the two subclasses of 上(かみ)二(に)段(だん)活(かつ)用(よう) (kami nidan katsuyō, “upper-bigrade conjugation”) and 下(しも)二(に)段(だん)活(か...