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What does Janus mean?

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Proper noun
  1. (Roman) The god of doorways, gates and transitions, and of beginnings and endings, having two faces looking in opposite directions.
  2. (attributively) 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.
    1. (chemistry) Used to indicate an azo dye with a quaternary ammonium group, frequently with the diazo component being safranine.
  3. (figuratively) A two-faced person, a hypocrite.
  4. (astronomy) A moon of Saturn.
Name
  1. A male given name of Latin origin.
    1. (meaning, history) The Roman God of doors and gates (beginnings and endings). The month of January is derived from this name.
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Janus was supposedly the god of new beginnings and gateways and was able to look backwards and forwards simultaneously.
As Janus has two faces, so one has legislative power, and the other governmental power.
Each scientific breakthrough and technological development is a Janus coin, on one side presenting the promise of improving man's lot on earth and on the other promising a bitter harvest.
As the Roman god Janus looks in two directions, so did the homebound Yankee soldiers.
Of course, these two aspects are interdependent and should not therefore be portrayed like the two heads of Janus, facing in opposite directions.
Now he will run a startup fund, called Janus Unconstrained, with essentially no assets, at a firm best-known for its stock funds.

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