# Rot

> Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Rot
> Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Rot.md
> Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rot
> Source revision: 1332377555
> License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)

**Rot(s)** or **rotting** may refer to:

## Decay

### Organic matter

- Rot, [decomposition](/source/Decomposition) of organic matter - [Dry rot](/source/Dry_rot), of wood - [Root rot](/source/Root_rot) - [Wet rot](/source/Wet_rot), of wood and other cellulose-rich plant matter
- [Necrosis](/source/Necrosis), of tissue

### Technology

- Bit rot, [data degradation](/source/Data_degradation) - [Software rot](/source/Software_rot), a form of bit rot
- [Disk rot](/source/Disk_rot), also called CD Rot or DVD rot, the physical decay of optical disks
- [Link rot](/source/Link_rot), hyperlinks becoming broken
- [Root of trust](/source/Root_of_trust), authoritative entity for which trust is assumed and not derived

## Film and literature

- [*Rot* (film)](/source/Rot_(film)), a 2019 horror drama film directed by Andrew Merrill
- [*Rot* (book)](/source/Rot_(book)), a 2025 book by Padraic X. Scanlan

## Music

- [*Rot* (album)](/source/Rot_(album)), an album by German rapper Sabrina Setlur
- [*Rot* (SITD)](/source/Rot_(SITD)), an album by the German band [:SITD:]
- [*Rotting* (EP)](/source/Rotting_(EP)), by the Brazilian metal band Sarcofago
- "Rot", a song by Northlane from their 2015 album *[Node](/source/Node_(album))*
- "Rotting", a song by Green Day from their 2002 album *[Shenanigans](/source/Shenanigans_(album))*
- "The Rot", a song by Dean Blunt from his 2021 album *[Black Metal 2](/source/Black_Metal_2)*

## Places

- [Rot (Bad Mergentheim)](/source/Rot_(Bad_Mergentheim)), a subdivision of the town of Bad Mergentheim in Baden-Württemberg, Germany
- [Rot (Apfelstädt)](/source/Rot_(Apfelst%C3%A4dt)), a river of Thuringia, Germany
- [Rot (Danube)](/source/Rot_(Danube)), a river in Upper Swabia, Germany
- [Rot (Kocher)](/source/Rot_(Kocher)), a river of Baden-Württemberg, Germany
- [Rot an der Rot](/source/Rot_an_der_Rot), a village on the Rot river, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
- [Rot, Sweden](/source/Rot,_Sweden), a village in the Älvdalen Municipality, Sweden

## Other uses

- [Rot (mathematics)](/source/Rot_(mathematics)), rotation vector operator
- [Brain rot](/source/Brain_rot), slang for poor-quality digital content

## See also

- [ROT (disambiguation)](/source/ROT_(disambiguation))
- [ROTS (disambiguation)](/source/ROTS_(disambiguation))
- [Roth (disambiguation)](/source/Roth_(disambiguation))
- [Rott (disambiguation)](/source/Rott_(disambiguation))
- [Rotten (disambiguation)](/source/Rotten_(disambiguation))

---
Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Rot](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rot) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rot?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.