Rot

Rot(s) or rotting may refer to:

Decay

Organic matter

• Rot, decomposition of organic matter
  • Dry rot, of wood
  • Root rot
  • Wet rot, of wood and other cellulose-rich plant matter
• Necrosis, of tissue

Technology

• Bit rot, data degradation
  • Software rot, a form of bit rot
• Disk rot, also called CD Rot or DVD rot, the physical decay of optical disks
• Link rot, hyperlinks becoming broken
• Root of trust, authoritative entity for which trust is assumed and not derived

Film and literature

• Rot (film), a 2019 horror drama film directed by Andrew Merrill
• Rot (book), a 2025 book by Padraic X. Scanlan

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 from their 2015 album Node
• "Rotting", a song by Green Day from their 2002 album Shenanigans
• "The Rot", a song by Dean Blunt from his 2021 album Black Metal 2

Places

• Rot (Bad Mergentheim), a subdivision of the town of Bad Mergentheim in Baden-Württemberg, Germany
• Rot (Apfelstädt), a river of Thuringia, Germany
• Rot (Danube), a river in Upper Swabia, Germany
• Rot (Kocher), a river of Baden-Württemberg, Germany
• Rot an der Rot, a village on the Rot river, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
• Rot, Sweden, a village in the Älvdalen Municipality, Sweden

Other uses

• Rot (mathematics), rotation vector operator
• Brain rot, slang for poor-quality digital content

See also

• ROT (disambiguation)
• ROTS (disambiguation)
• Roth (disambiguation)
• Rott (disambiguation)
• Rotten (disambiguation)