1. Mathematics

2. People

3. Places
    United States 

4. Art, entertainment, and media
    Literature and stage plays  Music  Groups and individuals  Albums  Songs  Television 

5. Businesses

6. Computing

7. Parts of objects

8. Other uses

9. See also

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 Dark Lineage
• Roots (film), a 1955 Mexican drama
• The Root (magazine), an online magazine focusing on African-American culture

Literature and stage plays

• 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
• 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
• The Next Generations, a 1979 sequel miniseries also based upon the novel
• 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 One Day at a Time (2017 TV series)

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

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

• Cursive (Music)
• Cursive script
• Cursive script (East Asia)
• Cursive writing
• Curson
• Cursor
• Cursor (databases)
• Cursorial hunting
• Cursoriinae
• Cursorius
• Cursorius cursor
• Cursor Mundi
• Cursors
• Cursor (slide rules)
• Cursor (user interface)
• Cursus
• Cursus (classical)
• Cursus honorum
• Cursus monument
• Cursus publicus
• Curta
• Curtain
• Curtain Call: The Hits
• Curtain (novel)
• Curtain playhouse