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Rock may refer to:

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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"

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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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