Associations to the word «Janus»
Noun
Wiktionary
JANUS, proper noun. (Roman god) The god of gates and doorways; having two faces looking in opposite directions.
JANUS, proper noun. A two-faced person, a hypocrite.
JANUS, proper noun. (astronomy) A moon of Saturn.
JANUS CLOTH, noun. (archaic) A fabric having two sides of different colours, used for reversible garments.
JANUS KINASE, noun. Any of a family of intracellular nonreceptor tyrosine kinases that transduce cytokine-mediated signals via the JAK-STAT pathway.
JANUS KINASES, noun. Plural of Janus kinase
JANUS PARTICLE, noun. (nanotechnology) (physics) A spherical microscopic particle which has hemispheres with sharply differing properties, such as one hydrophilic hemisphere and one hydrophobic hemisphere
JANUS PARTICLES, noun. Plural of Janus particle
Dictionary definition
JANUS, noun. (Roman mythology) the Roman god of doorways and passages; is depicted with two faces on opposite sides of his head.
Wise words
Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable
fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those
symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated
by the inaudible language of the heart.