Rock

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Contents 1 Geology 2 Music 3 People 4 Places 5 Food 6 Computers 7 Other

Rock may refer to:

Geology

• Rock (geology), a hard substance composed of mineral that can consist in particulate form or in large form (mountains, tectonic plates, planets).
• Rock salt or Halite, an unrefined form of sodium chloride
• A gemstone (slang), usually understood to be a diamond.

Music

• Rock and roll, a genre of music
• Rock music, a general genre of styles of popular music evolved from rock and roll
• Rocks (album), an album by Aerosmith
• Rock!!!!!, an album by the Violent Femmes
• I Wanna Rock, a song by rock band, Twisted Sister
• Rock Records, a record label

People

• Chris Rock, (1965–), American comedian
• Joseph Rock, (1884–1962), Austrian-American explorer, geographer and botanist
• Andrew Rock, (1982–), Olympic athlete
• Rock (rapper), half of the hip hop duo Heltah Skeltah
• The Rock (entertainer) (1972-), Dwayne Johnson, a professional wrestler and actor
• Bob Rock, (1954–), musician, sound engineer and record producer .
• David M. Rock, former mayor of Central Elgin, Ontario, Canada
• John Rock, one of the inventors of the contraceptive pill
• Kid Rock, (1971-), American rapper and rock musician

Places

• Rock, Kansas, USA
• Rock, Cornwall, UK
• Rock, Worcestershire, UK
• Rock, Rock County, Wisconsin, and Rock County, Wisconsin USA
• Rock, Wood County, Wisconsin, USA
• Rock, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
• Rock County, Minnesota
• Rock County, Nebraska
• Rock River (disambiguation)
• Gibraltar, nicknamed "The Rock"
• Alcatraz Island otherwise known as "The Rock", slang name for the federal prison in San Francisco Bay
• Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad, nicknamed "The Rock"

Food

• Rock (confectionery), a confectionery made and sold in many of the UK's seaside holiday resorts
• Rock candy, a type of confectionery composed of large sugar crystals
• Rock (chicken), a breed of chicken
• Ice (slang), commonly referred to as "rocks" when used with alcoholic beverages

Computers

• Rocks Cluster Distribution, a Linux distribution for cluster computing
• ROCK Linux is a distribution build kit, for building customized linux distributions.
• Rock processor, a Sun Microsystems microprocessor currently in development

Other

• A basketball (slang), the ball used in the sport
• Rock (manga character), a dark young boy who is a recurrent character of Osamu Tezuka's manga
• Rock, the name of Mega Man in the Japanese versions of the games
• Rock Lee, a character from the anime and manga series Naruto
• The Rock (film), a 1996 motion picture about the Alcatraz prison
• Nathaniel "Rock" Adams, a character from the Soul Calibur series of games
• Cocaine (Slang) or its variants, a drug
• Crystal methamphetamine, a drug
• An islet, usually a small island
• Rock (slang), a complimentary verb meaning to be cool, great, awesome; e.g. "You rock!"
• Rock Howard, a character from the Fatal Fury and King of Fighters series of games
• ROCK1, a human gene involved in signaling by the Rho kinase OMIM Entry

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