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Janus is the two-faced Roman god of gates, doors, doorways, beginnings, and endings.

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• People
• Astronomy
• Performing arts
• Music
• Film
• Other performing arts
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• Games and gaming
• Places
• Science
• Transportation and vehicular
• Other uses
• See also

Janus may also refer to:

Computing

• Janus, a codename used for Windows 2000 (DEC Alpha and Itanium 64-bit editions)
• Janus, a conflict simulation model, one of the world’s first near-real-time, player-interactive combat simulators
• Janus (concurrent constraint programming language)
• Janus (DRM), a Microsoft Digital Rights Management platform
• Janus (protocol), a file transfer protocol for use on bulletin board systems
• Janus (time-reversible computing programming language)
• Janus attack, an alternative name of a Man-in-the-middle attack
• JANUS clinical trial data repository, a standard supported by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
• Janus Recognition Toolkit (JRTk), a general purpose speech recognition toolkit

People

• Janus (given name)
• Janus (surname)
• Janus Prospero from the Resident Evil film series
• Janus of Cyprus (1375–1432), king of Cyprus from 1398 to 1432
• Janus I, Duke of Masovia
• J'anus, the claimed stage name of Janis McGavin, a performer on Balls of Steel Australia

Astronomy

• Janus Patera  [ it ], a shallow volcanic crater on Io, a moon of Jupiter
• Janus (moon), a moon of Saturn
• Janus (star), the name given to the hydrogen-helium faced white dwarf star ZTF J203349.8+322901.1

Performing arts

Printed media

Games and gaming

• Janus Chess, a chess variant
• Janus Zeal, a character in the game Chrono Trigger

Places

• Janus Island, an island of the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica
• Mont Janus, a mountain near Mont Chaberton, France

Science

• Janus (sawfly), a genus of stem sawflies in the family Cephidae
• Janus-faced molecule, used to describe a molecule whose effects on organisms can vary between beneficial and toxic
• Janus Experiments, a series of experiments on radio-sensitivity in mice and dogs
• Janus kinase, an intracellular signalling molecule; component of the JAK-STAT signal system
  • Janus kinase inhibitor, a medication that inhibits the activity of the Janus kinase enzymes
• Janus particle, an amphiphilic particle with a surface that is half hydrophilic half hydrophobic
• Janus TMD monolayers, a type of asymmetric transition-metal dichalcogenide monolayers
• Janus (spacecraft), a NASA mission to binary asteroids

Transportation and vehicular

• Janus (1810 ship) (1810–1832), built in New York, U.S.
• HMS Janus, a name used by British naval ships
• Schempp-Hirth Janus, a German two-seater glider
• Yorkshire Engine Company Janus, a British diesel shunting locomotive
• Zündapp Janus, a bubble car model by Zündapp
• Janus Motorcycles, a motorcycle manufacturer based in Goshen, Indiana

Other uses

• Janus Capital Group, an investment company based in Denver, Colorado
• Janus v. AFSCME , U.S. Supreme Court case (2018)
• Society of Janus, a San Francisco-based BDSM education and support group
• Janus, catalogue database of Cambridge University Library
• Janus, a sculpture by Clement Meadmore created for the Ruta de la Amistad in Mexico City

See also

• Janis (disambiguation)
• Janice (disambiguation)
• Janusz
• All pages with titles beginning with Janus
• All pages with titles containing Janus

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