Janus (disambiguation)

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

Janus may also refer to:

Computing

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 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
Janus, a codename used for Windows 2000 (DEC Alpha and Itanium 64-bit editions)
Janus attack, an alternative name of a Man-in-the-middle attack

People

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

Performing arts

Music

Janus Records, a record label
Janvs, a black metal band from Liguria, Italy
Janus (musical project), a German darkwave musical project established 1995
Janus (American band), hard rock band, established in the mid-1990s in Chicago, Illinois
Janus (album), the first full-length album released by Boyfriend

Film

Janus Films, an American film distribution company
Janus, the criminal organization in the James Bond movie GoldenEye
The Janus Project, a taboo cloning project in the movie Judge Dredd (film)

Other performing arts

Janus (play), a 1955 Broadway romantic comedy
Janus (TV series), an Australian drama television series

Printed media

Comics

Janus (comics), a list of characters
Janus (Marvel Comics), Marvel Comics character
Janus, DC Comics character known as Two-Face
Janus, character in the novel Angels & Demons

Other printed media

Janus (journal) (1896–1990), an academic journal on history of science and medicine published in Amsterdam
Janus (science fiction magazine), a feminist science fiction magazine
Janus: A Summing Up, a 1978 book by Arthur Koestler
The Janus branch of the Cahill family in The 39 Clues
Janus word or auto-antonym, a word with multiple meanings in which one is the reverse of another
Janus, a French poetry magazine published in Paris by Elliott Stein from 1950 to 1961

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
Janus Patera, a shallow volcanic crater on Io, a moon of Jupiter

Science

Janus (moon), a moon of Saturn
Janus (genus), a genus of stem sawflies in the family Cephidae
Janus cosmological model, a bimetric theory of gravity introducing negative mass in cosmology
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 particles, amphiphilic particles having one-half hydrophilic and the other half hydrophobic
Janus TMD monolayers, a type of asymmetric transition-metal dichalcogenide monolayers

Other uses

Janus (1810 ship) (1810–1832), built in New York, U.S.
HMS Janus, a name used by British naval ships
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
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, catalogue database of Cambridge University Library
Janus Motorcycles, a motorcycle manufacturer based in Goshen, Indiana

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