Rosetta (disambiguation)

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Rosetta may refer to:

As a placename:

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

As a title in entertainment:

• Rosetta (film), a 1999 Belgian film
• Rosetta (band), an American post-metal band formed in 2003
• Rosetta Passel: a character in Kaleido Star anime series
• Rosetta: The Masked Angel (Kamen Tenshi Rosetta), a japanese toku series that aired in 1998

In bioscience:

• Rosetta Biosoftware, a subsidiary of Merck & Co.
• Rosetta@home, a freeware program available to help predict and design protein structures

In language:

• Rosetta Project, a global collaboration which collects and archives languages in danger of extinction
• Rosetta (Newton), the Apple Newton's handwriting recognition system
• Rosetta, a handwriting recognition system for the OpenZaurus palmtop operating system
• Rosetta Stone (software), language learning software developed by Fairfield Language Technologies

In other software:

• Rosetta (binary translation software), a software emulator developed by Transitive Corp. for Apple Computer
• RosettaNet, a standardisation proposal for commercial information
• "Rosetta", the Microsoft codename of SQL Server Reporting Services
• Rosetta, a web-based translation application written by Canonical Ltd. for use on the GNU/Linux distribution Ubuntu

In other science:

• Rosetta (spacecraft), a European Space Agency-led craft launched in 2004 to study comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
• Rosetta (orbit), a type of orbit seen in spherically symmetric but not 1 / r potentials

In other uses:

• Princess Rosetta, a character in the video game Super Mario Galaxy

[edit] See also

• Rosetta Stone (disambiguation)
• Rosette, a flower-like shape