Root
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.
[Jargon File]
(1994-10-27)
2. <operating system> root directory.
(1996-11-21)
3. <data> root node.
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