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

See also

• Radix (disambiguation)
• Rootes (disambiguation)
• Rooting (disambiguation)
• Rut (disambiguation)
• Solution (disambiguation)
• Root of all evil (disambiguation)