A root is the part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors the plant body, and absorbs and stores water and nutrients.
Root or roots may also refer to:
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
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
Digital root, the sum of a number's digits
Any of the elements of a root system of vectors
One designated vertex of a rooted
tree in graph theory
The root or base of a number system
Root (
board game), a game published by Leder Games
Root (Chinese constellation)
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Roots, one's cultural heritage
Root, Australasian slang for sexual intercourse
शब्दयोनि , नेम , प्ररूढ , द्विकरणी ( square root ) , मूल्य ( beingattheroot ) , वर्गमूल