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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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For Heidegger, of course, Nietzsche was the fatidic Janus who, gazing forward, announced the death of metaphysics.
Of course, these two aspects are interdependent and should not therefore be portrayed like the two heads of Janus, facing in opposite directions.
As the Roman god Janus looks in two directions, so did the homebound Yankee soldiers.
According to the Roman myth, Janus, the bicephalous god, is older than the calendar and precedes Jupiter himself.
Now he will run a startup fund, called Janus Unconstrained, with essentially no assets, at a firm best-known for its stock funds.
Yet France rewarded the innovation by awarding Ludic'Area an Industry Janus in 2009, presented by the French Design Institute.

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