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
To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of
understanding; one must use the same words for the same
genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's
experiences in common.