Root (disambiguation)

A root is the part of a plant that is below ground.

Root or roots may also refer to:

Art, entertainment, and media

Roots (film), a 1955 Mexican drama
The Root (magazine), an online magazine focusing on African-American culture
The Roots, a location in the video game Kya: Dark Lineage
Roots, the English title for the Tamil film Sethum Aayiram Pon (2019)

Literature and stage plays

Koreni (novel) (English: The Roots), by Serbian author Dobrica Cosic
Roots (play), by Arnold Wesker
Roots: The Saga of an American Family, a 1976 novel by Alex Haley about slavery in the United States

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

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
"Roots", a 2019 song by Galantis and Valerie Broussard

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
"Roots", an episode of the television series One Day at a Time

Businesses

Root (company), a Japanese visual novel studio
Root Insurance Company, an American insurance company
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

Mathematics

The 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
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

Parts of objects

Root of the hair
Root of penis
Wing root, an aircraft part
The root of a mountain, in orogeny
The bottom part of a tooth

People

Root (surname), a family name
Roots Manuva (born 1972), British rapper
Rutaba Yaqub, Saudi Arabian singer, also known as "Roots"

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)

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

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