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Rosetta
Rosetta
Rosetta is a port city on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt. It is located east of Alexandria, in Beheira governorate. It was founded around AD 800....

is the anglicised name of the city of Rashid, Egypt, famous as the location of the Rosetta Stone

Rosetta Stone

The Rosetta Stone is an ancient Egyptian granodiorite stele inscribed with a decree issued at Memphis in 196 BC on behalf of King Ptolemy V. The decree appears in three scripts: the upper text is Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, the middle portion Demotic script, and the lowest Ancient Greek...

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Rosetta may also refer to:

As a placename:

Rosetta, Belfast in Northern Ireland
Rosetta, Tasmania
Rosetta, Tasmania
Rosetta is a suburb in the northern suburbs of Hobart, capital of the Australian state of Tasmania. It is in the local government area of City of Glenorchy. The suburb is situated between the suburbs of Berriedale and Montrose and is approximately 15 minutes drive from Hobart. There is a primary...

, suburb of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

In entertainment:

Rosetta (band)
Rosetta (band)
Rosetta is an American post-metal band from Philadelphia incorporating elements of post-hardcore, shoegazing, drone, post-rock, avant-garde, and ambient, with influences as diverse as Neurosis and Isis, My Bloody Valentine, Frodus, and Stars of the Lid...

, an American post-metal band formed in 2003
Rosetta (film)
Rosetta (film)
Rosetta is a 1999 French-Belgian film written and directed by Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne. It is about a seventeen year old girl who lives in a trailer park with her alcoholic mother...

, a 1999 Belgian film
Rosetta (novel)
Rosetta (novel)
Rosetta is a Star Trek: Enterprise novel, which was released on 31 January 2006.-Synopsis:Captain Jonathan Archer and the crew of the Starship Enterprise find their way forward blocked by a mysterious alien vessel, piloted by a race they will soon come to know as the Antianna...

, a Star Trek: Enterprise novel
Rosetta: The Masked Angel
Rosetta: The Masked Angel
is a Japanese tokusatsu drama that aired from July 4 to September 26, 1998 on TV Tokyo. It featured the adventures of a young girl named Asuka who follows in her father's footsteps as Rosetta to battle evil monsters called...

(Kamen Tenshi Rosetta), a Japanese toku series that aired in 1998
Rosetta, the Japanese name of Rosalina, a character in the video game Super Mario Galaxy
Super Mario Galaxy
is a 3D platform game developed by Nintendo EAD Tokyo and published by Nintendo for the Wii. It was released in most regions in November 2007, and is the third 3D original platformer in the Mario series, after Super Mario 64 and Super Mario Sunshine. The game follows the protagonist, Mario, on a...
Rosetta Passel, a character in Kaleido Star anime series
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Sister Rosetta Tharpe was an Amercian pioneering gospel singer, songwriter and recording artist who attained great popularity in the 1930s and 1940s with a unique mixture of spiritual lyrics and early rock and roll accompaniment...

a pioneering singer of gospel and Rock and Roll

In bioscience:

Rosetta Biosoftware, a subsidiary of Merck & Co.
Rosetta Genomics
Rosetta Genomics
Rosetta Genomics Ltd. is a molecular diagnostics company with offices in Israel and the United States that uses micro-ribonucleic acid biomarkers to develop diagnostic tests designed to differentiate between various types of cancer. The company expects the first three tests based on its...

, a molecular diagnostics company
Rosetta@home
Rosetta@home
Rosetta@home is a distributed computing project for protein structure prediction on the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing platform, run by the Baker laboratory at the University of Washington...

, a freeware program available to help predict and design protein structures

In natural language:

Rosetta Project
Rosetta Project
The Rosetta Project is a global collaboration of language specialists and native speakers working to develop a contemporary version of the historic Rosetta Stone to last from 2000 to 12,000 AD; it is run by the Long Now Foundation. Its goal is a meaningful survey and near permanent archive of 1,500...

, a global collaboration which collects and archives languages in danger of extinction

In computing:

Rosetta (software)
Rosetta (software)
Rosetta was a lightweight and dynamic binary translator for Mac OS X which Apple released in 2006 when it transitioned the Macintosh from PowerPC to Intel processors. It allowed pre-existing software to run on the new systems without modification....

, a software emulator developed by Transitive Corp. for Apple Computer
Rosetta, a web-based translation application written by Canonical Ltd.
Canonical Ltd.
Canonical Ltd. is a private company founded by South African entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth to market commercial support and related services for Ubuntu Linux and related projects. Canonical is registered in London and employs staff around the world...

for use on the Linux distribution Ubuntu operating system
Rosetta, a handwriting recognition system for the OpenZaurus
OpenZaurus
OpenZaurus is a defunct embedded operating system for the Sharp Zaurus personal mobile tool PDA.- History :In its original form, the project was a repackaging of the SharpROM, the Zaurus's factory supplied kernel and root filesystem image...

palmtop operating system
Rosetta, the Apple Newton's handwriting recognition system
RosettaNet
RosettaNet
RosettaNet is a non-profit consortium aimed at establishing standard processes for the sharing of business information . RosettaNet is a consortium of major Computer and Consumer Electronics, Electronic Components, Semiconductor Manufacturing, Telecommunications and Logistics companies working to...

, a standardisation proposal for commercial information
Rosetta, the Microsoft codename of SQL Server Reporting Services
SQL Server Reporting Services
SQL Server Reporting Services is a server-based report generation software system from Microsoft. It can be used to prepare and deliver a variety of interactive and printed reports. It is administered via a web interface...

In science:

Rosetta (spacecraft)
Rosetta (spacecraft)
Rosetta is a robotic spacecraft of the European Space Agency on a mission to study the comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. Rosetta consists of two main elements: the Rosetta space probe and the Philae lander. The spacecraft was launched on 2 March 2004 on an Ariane 5 rocket and will reach the comet by...

, a European Space Agency-led craft launched in 2004 to study comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
Rosetta (orbit)
Rosetta (orbit)
A Rosetta orbit is a complex type of orbit. Theoretically, an object approaching a black hole with an intermediate velocity will enter a complex orbit pattern, bounded by a near and far distance to the hole and tracing an oscillating pattern known as a hypotrochoid.In quantum mechanics, the...

, a type of orbit seen in spherically symmetric but not potentials

In other uses:

Rosetta, a synonym for the Italian wine grape Nebbiolo
A form of latte art
Latte Art
Latte art is a method of preparing coffee created by pouring steamed milk into a shot of espresso and resulting in a pattern or design on the surface of the resulting latte. It can also be created or embellished by simply "drawing" in the top layer of foam...

which resembles a flower
An alternative denomination of the michetta
Michetta
Michetta is an Italian white bread, recognizable from its hollow, bulged shape.Other similarly prepared types of Italian breads include the maggiolino and tartaruga.-History:...

bread.

See also