Rosetta (disambiguation)

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Not to be confused with Rosette.

Rosetta has many meanings, most arising from the famed archaeological artifact, the Rosetta Stone:

As a placename:

• Rosetta, the anglicised name of the city of Rashid, Egypt
• Rosetta, Tasmania, suburb of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
• Rosetta, Belfast in Northern Ireland

As a title in entertainment:

• Rosetta (film), a 1999 award-winning Belgium film written and directed by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
• "Rosetta" (song), a popular song from 1948
• Rosetta Stone (1970s band), a rock band formed in 1977 by ex-Bay City Roller Ian Mitchell
• Rosetta Stone (band), a British gothic-rock band formed in 1988
• "Rosetta Stoned", a song on the album 10,000 Days by Tool
• Rosetta Stone, a song by Kristen Hersch performed by Throwing Muses
• Rosetta the Masked Angel (also known as Kamen Tenshi Rosetta), a japanese toku series that aired in 1998

As a project or organization:

• Rosetta Biosoftware, a software design unit of Rosetta Inpharmatics, Inc., a subsidiary of Merck & Co.
• Rosetta Project, a global collaboration of language specialists and native speakers which collects and archives languages in danger of extinction
• Rosetta (spacecraft), a European Space Agency-led unmanned space mission launched in 2004
• Rosetta@home, a distributed computing project to predict and design protein structures
• RosettaNet, a non-profit consortium aimed at establishing standard processes for the sharing of business information

As a title in software:

• Rosetta (software), a software emulator developed by Transitive Corp. for Apple Computer
• Rosetta was the code name for the Apple Newton's printed-text handwriting recognition system.
• Rosetta@home, a freeware program available to help predict and design protein structures
• RosettaNet, a standardisation proposal for commercial information
• Rosetta Stone (software), language learning software developed by Fairfield Language Technologies
• Rosetta System 6, a database management system for classified advertisements -or- a software platform for websites
• Rosetta Resolver, a software system made by Rosetta Biosoftware aimed at the toxicogenomics research market
• Rosetta was the Microsoft codename of SQL Server Reporting Services
• Rosetta [1] is the name of a handwriting recognition system used by the OpenZaurus [2] palmtop operating system.

Rosetta may also refer to:

• The Rosetta Stone, a famous archaeological artifact found at Rosetta in Egypt known as the key to deciphering of the Egyptian hieroglyphic language
• Rosetta (orbit), a type of orbit seen in spherically symmetric but not 1 / r potentials
• Rosetta (coffee), a rose-like pattern constructed by a barista in the crema or the milk froth of an espresso-based coffee
• Dr. Seuss, Rosetta Stone is one of his nicknames