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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
A spherical microscopic particle which has hemispheres with sharply differing properties, such as one hydrophilic hemisphere and one hydrophobic hemisphere
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: engineering, nanotechnology, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
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History
In reference to the two-faced god Janus.
