Root
Root is the name of the following places:
- Root LU , municipality in the canton of Lucerne, Switzerland
- Root (New York) , town in Montgomery County
Root stands for:
- Root (directory) , the highest directory in a file system, see root directory
- Root account , an administrative user account in computer operating systems
- ROOT , a program package for data analysis in particle physics
- Root (game) , a board game by Cole Wehrle
Root is the family name of the following people:
- Amanda Root (born 1963), British actress
- Billy Root ( William Root ; 1934-2013), American saxophonist
- Elbert Root (1915–1983), American water diver
- Elihu Root (1845–1937), American lawyer and politician
- Erastus Root (1773–1846), American lawyer and politician
- Frederic Woodman Root (1846–1916), American composer and singing teacher
- George Frederick Root (1820–1895), American composer
- Jack Root (1876–1963), Austrian boxer
- James Root (* 1971), American rock musician
- Jesse Root (1736–1822), American lawyer and politician
- Joan Root (1936-2006), Kenyan wildlife filmmaker
- John Wellborn Root (1850–1891), American architect
- Joseph M. Root (1807–1879), American politician
- Joseph Pomeroy Root (1826–1885), American politician
- Leon Root (1929–2015), American orthopedic surgeon
- Martha Root (1872–1939), American travel preacher
- Stephen Root (born 1951), American actor
- Waverley Root (1903–1982), American journalist
- Wayne Allyn Root (born 1961), American television producer, writer, manager and politician
- William Lucas Root (1919–2007), American mathematician and engineer
- William Pitt Root (born 1941), American poet
RO-OT stands for:
- Olt County , ISO-3166-2 Code of the Romanian County
See also:
Wiktionary: root - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
