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A root is the part of a plant that is below ground.
Root or roots may also refer to:
Mathematics
- The nth root of a number
- A 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
- Root of a polynomial, a zero of the corresponding polynomial function
- Any of the elements of a root system of vectors
- One designated vertex of a rooted tree in graph theory
People
- Root (surname), a family name
- Roots Manuva (born 1972), British rapper
Places
- Root, Switzerland, a municipality in the district of Lucerne
United States
- Roots, Michigan, an unincorporated community in Henrietta Township, Jackson County
- Root, New York, a town in Montgomery County
- Root River (Minnesota)
- Root River (Wisconsin)
Art, entertainment, and media
- The Roots, a location in the video game Kya: Dark Lineage
- Roots (film), a 1955 Mexican drama
- The Root (magazine), an online magazine focusing on African-American culture
Literature and stage plays
- Roots: The Saga of an American Family, a 1976 novel by Alex Haley about slavery in the United States
- Roots (play), by Arnold Wesker
- Koreni (novel) (English: The Roots), by Serbian author Dobrica Cosic
Music
- Root (chord), the fundamental note of a chord
- Roots music (disambiguation)
Groups and individuals
- Root (band), a Czech metal band
- Root!, an Australian alt-country band
- The Roots, a hip-hop group from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Rutaba Yaqub, Saudi Arabian singer, also known as "Roots"
Albums
- Roots (Idrees Sulieman album), 1958
- Roots (The Everly Brothers album), 1968
- Roots (Curtis Mayfield album), 1971
- Roots: John Lennon Sings The Great Rock & Roll Hits, 1975
- Roots (Slide Hampton album), 1985
- Roots (Sepultura album), 1996
- Roots (Cedar Walton album), 1997
- Root (album), 1999, by Thurston Moore
- Roots (Blue Mountain album), 2001
- Roots (Shawn McDonald album), 2008
- R.O.O.T.S., a 2009 album by Flo Rida
- Roots (Johnny Winter album), 2011
- Roots (Orla Gartland album), 2013
- Roots, an album by Martin Fröst
Songs
- "Root", a song by Deftones on the 1995 album Adrenaline
- "The Root", a song by D'Angelo, on the 2000 album Voodoo
- "Roots", by the band Spunge on their 2002 album The Story So Far
- "Roots", a song on the 2006 Show of Hands album Witness
- "Roots" (Imagine Dragons song)
- "Roots", a 2016 song by the band Parmalee
- "Roots", by the band In This Moment on their 2017 album Ritual
Television
- "Roots" (Haven), a television episode
- Root Sports, a sports television network in the United States
- "Root", code name of a fictional hacker in the TV series Person of Interest
- Roots (1977 miniseries), based upon the novel
- Roots: The Next Generations, a 1979 sequel miniseries also based upon the novel
- Roots: The Gift, a 1988 television film set between the second and third episodes of the original miniseries
- Roots (2016 miniseries), a remake of the 1977 miniseries
- .hack//Roots, a 2006 anime series created by Bee Train
Businesses
- Root (company) a Japanese visual novel studio
- Roots Canada, a clothing brand with stores worldwide
Computing
- /root, the Unix superuser's home directory in the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
- ROOT, an object-oriented multipurpose data analysis package
- 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
Parts of objects
- The root of a mountain, in orogeny
- Root of the hair
- Root of penis
- Root, the bottom part of a tooth
- Wing root, an aircraft part
Other uses
- Root (Chinese constellation)
- Root (linguistics), the core form of a word
- Roots, one's cultural heritage
- Root cause, the initiating cause of a condition
- Root, Australian slang for sexual intercourse
See also
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