Janus

专有名词
中文释义
英 /ˈd͡ʒeɪnəs/    美 /ˈd͡ʒeɪnəs/|/ˈdʒæɪ̯nəs/

英文释义

专有名词
  1. The god of doorways, gates and transitions, and of beginnings and endings, having two faces looking in opposite directions. Roman
    — In the ages of victory, as often as the senate decreed some distant conquest, the consul denounced hostilities, by unbarring, in solemn pomp, the gates of the temple of Janus. Domestic war now rendered the admonition superfluous, and the ceremony was superseded by the establishment of a new religion. But the brazen temple of Janus was left standing in the forum; of a size sufficient only to contain the statue of the god, five cubits in height, of a human form, but with two faces, directed to the east and west.
  2. 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. attributive
    — Janus cat, Janus particle
  3. 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.; Used to indicate an azo dye with a quaternary ammonium group, frequently with the diazo component being safranine. attributive
    — Janus green B is a dye used widely in histology to stain cells for microscopic examination.
  4. A two-faced person, a hypocrite. figuratively
    — The hypocrite; or, The modern Janus.
  5. A moon of Saturn.
    — Heavily cratered and irregularly shaped, Janus orbits Saturn just beyond the F ring and only 50km (30 miles) farther away than its co-orbital moon, Epimetheus.
  6. A male given name from Latin. rare

词汇关系

衍生词
Janian Janiform Januform Janus cat Janus-faced Janus green B Janus-headed Janus particle Janus word
相关词
janiceps January

词源

From Latin Iānus (“the Roman god Janus”).
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