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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 operating system.
See root mode, go root, wheel.
(1994-10-27)
2. <operating system> root directory.
(1996-11-21)
(1998-11-14)
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