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A root is the part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors the plant body, and absorbs and stores water and nutrients.

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• Films
• Literature and stage plays
• Music
• Television
• Businesses
• Computing
• Mathematics
• NGOs
• People
• Places
• United States
• Other uses
• See also

Root or roots may also refer to:

Art, entertainment, and media

• The Root (magazine), an online magazine focusing on African-American culture
• The Roots, a location in the video game Kya: Dark Lineage

Businesses

• Root, Inc., an American insurance company
• Roots Canada, a clothing brand with stores worldwide
• Roots (restaurant), a Michelin starred restaurant in York, in England

Computing

• /root, the Unix superuser's home directory in the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
• ROOT, an object-oriented multipurpose data analysis package developed by CERN
• root, a name for the superuser account in some operating systems
• Root directory, the first or top-most directory in a hierarchy
• Root node, the node in a tree data structure from which every other node is accessible
• ROOTS (software), a series of genealogy programs

Mathematics

• nth root of a number
  • Root of unity, a complex number which is an nth root of one
• Root of an equation, a solution of the equation
• Root of a function, more meaningfully called zero of a function, an argument for which the function evaluates to zero
• Digital root, the sum of a number's digits
• Any of the elements of a root system of vectors
• One designated vertex of a rooted tree in graph theory
• The root or base of a number system

NGOs

• Roots – Judur – Shorashim, a peace organization for Palestinians and Israelis

People

• Root (surname), a family name
• Roots Manuva (born 1972), British rapper
• Rutaba Yaqub, Saudi Arabian singer, also known as "Roots"
• Root, Japanese singer from Strawberry prince
• Elmar Roots (1900–1962), Estonian veterinarian
• Byron Root Pierce (1829–1924), American dentist and American Civil War veteran

Places

• Root, Switzerland, a municipality in the district of Lucerne
• Root River (disambiguation)

Other uses

• Root (board game), a game published by Leder Games
• Root (Chinese constellation)
• Root (linguistics), the core form of a word
• Roots, one's cultural heritage
• Root, Australasian slang for sexual intercourse

See also

• Root of all evil (disambiguation)
• Root cause (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles containing Root
• Rooter (disambiguation)
• Rootes (disambiguation)
• Rooting (disambiguation)
• Radix (disambiguation)
• Rut (disambiguation)
• Solution (disambiguation)

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