janus

The god of doorways, gates and transitions, and of beginnings and endings, having two faces looking in opposite directions.Roman

• We find ourselves once again sitting in Committee of the Whole House to vote a war subsidy. The present occupants of the Treasury Bench are determined that so long as they retain their places the Temple of Janus shall not be closed.

Used to indicate things with two faces (such as animals with diprosopus) or aspects; or made of two different materials; or having a two-way action.attributive

• Janus cat, Janus particle

Used to indicate things with two faces (such as animals with diprosopus) or aspects; or made of two different materials; or having a two-way action.; Used to indicate an azo dye with a quaternary ammonium group, frequently with the diazo component being safranine.attributive

• Janus green B is a dye used widely in histology to stain cells for microscopic examination.

A two-faced person, a hypocrite.figuratively

• The hypocrite; or, The modern Janus.

A moon of Saturn.

• Heavily cratered and irregularly shaped, Janus orbits Saturn just beyond the F ring and only 50km (30 miles) farther away than its co-orbital moon, Epimetheus.

A male given name from Latin.rare