Rot
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Rot or rotting may refer to:
- Decomposition, the process by which organic matter breaks down
- Dry rot and wet rot in wood
- Rot-proof, a process to protect materials from decomposition
In technology:
- Bit rot, the gradual electronic decay of storage media and software
- Disk rot, the physical decay of optical disks such as CDs due to chemical or electrical damage
- Software rot, a form of bit rot
- Link rot, in which hyperlinks on web pages become broken over time
- ROT13, in cryptography, a simple substitution cipher
Places:
- Rot (Danube), a river in Upper Swabia, Germany
- Rot an der Rot, a village on the Rot river
- Sankt Leon-Rot, a municipality in Baden-Württemberg, Germany
- Rot, Sweden, a village in the Älvdalen Municipality, Sweden
Other uses:
- Rot (mathematics), a vector operator in mathematics (an abbreviation of rotation)
- Rotting (band), a metal group from Canada
- Rotting (album), an album by the Brazilian metal band Sarcofago
- TAROM, a Romanian airline, ICAO code ROT
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