Rot

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
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, a simple substitution cipher in cryptography
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 (album), an album by the Brazilian metal band Sarcofago
  • TAROM, a Romanian airline, ICAO code ROT

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Famous quotes containing the word rot:

    “I ask whether the mere eating of human flesh so very far exceeds in barbarity that custom which only a few years since was practised in enlightened England:Ma convicted traitor, perhaps a man found guilty of honesty, patriotism, and suchlike heinous crimes, had his head lopped off with a huge axe, his bowels dragged out and thrown into a fire; while his body, carved into four quarters, was with his head exposed upon pikes, and permitted to rot and fester among the public haunts of men!”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “Much attribute he hath, and much the reason
    Why we ascribe it to him; yet all his virtues,
    Not virtuously of his own part beheld,
    Do in our eyes begin to lose their gloss,
    Yea, like fair fruit in an unwholesome dish,
    Are like to rot untasted.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “The duck fats rot in the roasting pan,
    And it’s over and over and all ...”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)