Rot(s) or rotting may refer to:

Decay

Organic matter

* Rot,

decomposition Decomposition or rot is the process by which dead organic substances are broken down into simpler organic or inorganic matter such as carbon dioxide, water, simple sugars and mineral salts. The process is a part of the nutrient cycle and is e ...

of organic matter **

Dry rot Dry rot is wood decay caused by one of several species of fungi that digest parts of the wood which give the wood strength and stiffness. It was previously used to describe any decay of cured wood in ships and buildings by a fungus which resul ...

, of wood **

Root rot Root rot is a condition in which anoxic conditions in the soil or potting media around the roots of a plant cause them to rot. This occurs due to excessive standing water around the roots. It is found in both indoor and outdoor plants, although ...

Wet rot Wet rot is a generic term used to define a variety of fungal species, such as ''Coniophora puteana'' ( otherwise known as cellar fungus) and '' Choanephora cucurbitarum''. Some species obtain their food by breaking down the cell walls of wood, r ...

, of wood *

Necrosis Necrosis () is a form of cell injury which results in the premature death of cells in living tissue by autolysis. Necrosis is caused by factors external to the cell or tissue, such as infection, or trauma which result in the unregulated dige ...

, of tissue

Technology

* Bit rot,

data degradation Data degradation is the gradual corruption of computer data due to an accumulation of non-critical failures in a data storage device. The phenomenon is also known as data decay, data rot or bit rot. Example Below are several digital images ill ...

Software rot Software rot (bit rot, code rot, software erosion, software decay, or software entropy) is either a slow deterioration of software quality over time or its diminishing responsiveness that will eventually lead to software becoming faulty, unusabl ...

, a form of bit rot *

Disk rot Disc rot is the tendency of CD, DVD, or other optical discs to become unreadable because of physical or chemical deterioration. The causes include oxidation of the reflective layer, physical scuffing and abrasion of disc, reactions with contaminan ...

, also called CD Rot or DVD rot, the physical decay of optical disks *

Link rot Link rot (also called link death, link breaking, or reference rot) is the phenomenon of hyperlinks tending over time to cease to point to their originally targeted file, web page, or server due to that resource being relocated to a new address ...

, hyperlinks becoming broken

Music

* ''Rot'' (album), an album by German rapper Sabrina Setlur * ''Rot'' (SITD), an album by the German band SITD:* ''Rotting'' (EP), by the Brazilian metal band Sarcofago * "Rot", a song by Northlane in 2015 album ''

Node In general, a node is a localized swelling (a "knot") or a point of intersection (a vertex). Node may refer to: In mathematics *Vertex (graph theory), a vertex in a mathematical graph *Vertex (geometry), a point where two or more curves, lines, ...

'' * "Rotting", a song by Green Day in 2002 album '' Shenanigans''

Places

Rot (Bad Mergentheim) Bad Mergentheim (; Mergentheim until 1926; East Franconian: ''Märchedol'') is a town in the Main-Tauber-Kreis district in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It has a population of around 23,000. An officially recognized spa town since 1926, B ...

, a subdivision of the town of Bad Mergentheim in Baden-Württemberg, Germany *

Rot (Apfelstädt) Rot (in its upper course Roth) is a river of Thuringia, Germany. The Rot springs near the district of Gotha. It is a left tributary of the Apfelstädt in Wandersleben. See also *List of rivers of Thuringia A list of rivers of Thuringia, Germ ...

, a river of Thuringia, Germany *

Rot (Danube) The Rot is a southern tributary of the river Danube in the region of Upper Swabia in Baden-Württemberg in Germany. It has a length of 56 km. The Rot runs in a northerly direction parallel to the river Iller to the east, and Westernach t ...

, a river in Upper Swabia, Germany *

Rot (Kocher) Rot is a river of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is a left tributary of the Kocher. In order to distinguish it from similar named other rivers (some of then flowing quite nearby), this Rot is sometimes also called ''Fichtenberger Rot''. Its sour ...

, a river of Baden-Württemberg, Germany *

Rot an der Rot Rot an der Rot () is a town in the district of Biberach in Baden-Württemberg in Germany. The town developed out of Rot an der Rot Abbey. Bilder File:Rot ad Rot, Klosterkirche Sankt Verena (und Maria) Lijst 2 Paragraph 28 foto3 2014-07-28 ...

, a village on the Rot river, Baden-Württemberg, Germany *

Rot, Sweden Rot (Elfdalian: ''Ruot'') is a locality situated in Älvdalen Municipality, Dalarna County, Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is ...

, a village in the Älvdalen Municipality, Sweden

Other uses

Rot (mathematics) In vector calculus, the curl is a vector operator that describes the infinitesimal circulation of a vector field in three-dimensional Euclidean space. The curl at a point in the field is represented by a vector whose length and direction denote ...

, rotation vector operator