Rot

Rot or rotting may refer to:

• Decomposition, the process by which organic matter breaks down
  • Dry rot and wet rot in wood
  • Root rot.
• 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 (EP), an EP by the Brazilian metal band Sarcofago
• TAROM, a Romanian airline, ICAO code ROT
• Recording of transmission, a record made of material broadcast on a radio station
• Rot, a song by Australian metalcore band Northlane from their 2015 album Node

See also

• ROT (disambiguation)
• Rott (disambiguation)
• Roth (disambiguation)
• Rots, a commune in northern France