[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

janus \ja"nus\, n. l. 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 of janus. this passage was open in war and
   closed in peace. --dr. w. smith.
   1913 webster

   janus cloth, a fabric having both sides dressed, the sides
      being of different colors, -- used for reversible
      garments.
      1913 webster
see also:
january janus cloth 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

janus
     n : roman mythology the roman god of doorways and passages; is
         depicted with two faces on opposite sides of his head

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

22 moby thesaurus words for "janus":
   ambiguity, ambivalence, biformity, bifurcation, conjugation,
   dichotomy, doubleness, doublethink, doubling, dualism, duality,
   duplexity, duplication, duplicity, equivocality, halving, irony,
   pairing, polarity, twinning, two-facedness, twoness

[4] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

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  et al in logic
        programming: proc 1990 north am conf, s. debray et al eds, mit
        press 1990.
     
        "programming in janus", saraswat, kahn, and levy.
     
        2. w.m. waite, u colorado.  intermediate language, claimed as
        an implementation of uncol.  used on cdc 6600.
     
        "experience with the universal intermediate language janus",
        b.k. haddon et al, soft prac  exp 85:601- 616 sep 1978.
     
     
see also:
qdjanus prolog sicstus prolog jc c uncol 
cdc 6600 

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