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1. Janus
   [n] - (Roman mythology) the Roman god of doorways and passages
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2. Janus
   Satellite of the planet Saturn. See TABLE 8. SATURN - SATELLITE DATA
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3. Janus
   In Roman mythology, the god of all openings, including doorways and passageways, and the beginning of the day, month, and year. January was dedicated to him. He is represented as having two faces,...
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4. janus
   antenna system for an airborne Doppler radar,designed to eliminate the effects of aircraft movement other than displacemement over the ground Category: News-systems and communications
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5. Janus
   Ja'nus noun [ Latin See January .] (Rom. Antiq.) A Latin deity represented with two faces looking in opposite directions. Numa is said to have dedicated to Janus the covered passage at Rome, near the Forum, which is usually called the Temple ...
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6. Janus
   • (n.) A Latin deity represented with two faces looking in opposite directions. Numa is said to have dedicated to Janus the covered passage at Rome, near the Forum, which is usually called the Temple of Janus. This passage was open in war and closed in peace.
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7. Janus
   (from the article `Saturn`) Janus and Epimetheus are co-orbital moons—they share the same average orbit. Every few years they make a close approach, interacting gravitationally ...
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8. Janus
   in Roman religion, the animistic spirit of doorways (januae) and archways (jani). Janus and the nymph Camasene were the parents of Tiberinus, whose ... [2 related articles]
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9. Janus
   Janus is a Lat In girl name. The meaning of the name is `Beginnings` The name Janus doesn`t appear In the US top 1000 most common names over de last 128 years. The name Janus seems to be unique!
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10. Janus
    Janus The name of an ancient Italian deity, regarded as the doorkeeper of heaven, as guardian of doors and gates, and as presiding over the entrance upon or beginning of things; represented with a face on the front and another on the back of his head; the doors of his temple in the Roman Forum were ...
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11. Janus
    HMS Janus was a British Javelin Class destroyer of 1690 tons displacement launched in 1938 and sunk during the Second World War. She was armed with six 4.7-inch guns; six smaller guns and ten 21-inch torpedo tubes. She was powered by two Admiralty 3-drum type boilers providing a top speed of 36 knots and carried a complement of 183.
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12. Janus
    1. Distributed language with an ask/tell constraint system. qdjanus is a Janus-to-Prolog compiler for Sicstus Prolog and jc is compiles to C. ['Janus: A Step Towards Distributed Constraint Programming', V. Saraswat (saraswat@parc.xerox.com) et al in Logic Programming: Proc 1990 North Am Conf, S. Deb...
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13. Janus
    Janus (jā'nus) , in Roman religion, god of beginnings. He was one of the principal Roman gods, the custodian of the universe. The first hour of the day, the first day of the month, the first month of the year (which bears his name) were sacred to him. His chief function was as guardian dei...
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14. Janus
    Janus (jā'nus) , in astronomy, one of the named moons, or natural satellites, of Saturn. Also known as Saturn X (or S10), Janus is an irregularly shaped (nonspherical) body measuring about 122 mi (196 km) by 119 mi (192 km) by 93 mi (150 km); it orbits Saturn at a mean distance of 94,120 m...
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15. Janus
    Janus was a two faced Roman god of doorways, and of beginnings and ends. In the earliest days of the universe, Janus was created by Ouranos as a love-gift for Hecate. But Janus (as Hecate called him) was appalled by life in the Underworld and jumped into the river Styx and was carried to the Upper W...
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16. Janus
    In Roman mythology, the god of all openings, including doorways and passageways, and the beginning of the day, month, and year. January was dedicated to him. He is represented as having two faces, one looking forwards and one back, (in sculpture, a herm), and was associated with wisdom because he kn...
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17. JANUS
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18. Janus
    In ancient Roman religion and mythology, `Janus` is the god of beginnings and transitions, thence also of gates, doors, doorways, endings and time. Most often he is depicted as having two faces on his head, facing opposite directions: one face looks eastward and the other westward. Symbolically they...
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19. Janus
    (moon) : Saturn X redirects here. For the spurious moon reported in 1905, see Themis (moon) .--> Latin: Ianus) is an inner satellite of Saturn. It is also known as `Saturn X` (Roman numeral X = 10). It is named after the mythological Janus. Discovery and orbit: :The following...
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20. Janus
    (DRM) `Janus` is the codename for portable version of Windows Media DRM for portable devices, whose marketing name is `Windows Media DRM for Portable Devices` (or in short form `WMDRM-PD`) introduced by Microsoft in 2004 for use on portable media devices which store and access content offline...
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21. Janus
    (programming language) The name `Janus` refers to at least two computer programming languages or partial descriptions of possible computer programing languages: Concurrent Constraint Programming: `Janus` is a computer programming language partially described by K. Kahn and Vijay A. Saraswat i...
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22. Janus
    (science fiction magazine) `Janus` ISSN 0197-775X was a feminist science fiction fanzine edited by Janice Bogstad and Jeanne Gomoll in Madison, Wisconsin, and closely associated with that city`s science fiction convention, WisCon (Several early WisCon program books doubled as special i...
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23. Janus
    (musical project) `Janus` is a German musical project led by Dirk "Rig" Riegert and Tobias Hahn. The name comes from Roman mythology, specifically the god Janus, who ruled over gates and doors. History : From the beginning, Janus consisted of only two members - Dirk "Rig" ...
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24. Janus
    (Marvel Comics) image= --> `Janus` is a fictional comic-book character in the Marvel Comics universe. Fictional character biography: The Golden Angel was a possessing spirit who claimed to be an angel, a messenger and warrior of God. This angel was revealed to have appeared to Dracula and thw...
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