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1. operating system The Unix superuser account (with

user name "root" and user ID 0) that overrides file

permissions. The term avatar is also used. By extension,

the privileged system-maintenance login on any operatingsystem.

See root mode, go root, wheel.

(1994-10-27)

2. operating system root directory.

(1996-11-21)

3. data root node.

(1998-11-14)

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