Hotspot, Hot Spot or Hot spot may refer to:
Places
- Hot Spot, Kentucky, a community in the United States
Arts, entertainment, and media
Fictional entities
- Hot Spot (comics), a name for the DC Comics character Isaiah Crockett
- Hot Spot (Transformers), any of several characters
Films
- Hot Spot (1941 film), later retitled I Wake Up Screaming
- Hot Spot (1945 film), a Private Snafu film
- The Hot Spot, a 1990 neo-noir film
Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media
- Hot Spot (board game), a 1979 board game published by Metagaming Concepts
- "Hot Spot" (Burn Notice), a television episode
- Hot Spot (musical), 1963
- "Hot Spot" (song), by Foxy Brown
- Hotspot (album), a 2020 album by Pet Shop Boys
- The Hot Spot (Podcast), a GameSpot podcast
Computing
- Hot spot (computer programming), a compute-intensive region of a program
- Hot spot, an area which is customizable by users in software frameworks
- Wi-Fi hotspot, a wireless network access point or area
- Connectify Hotspot, a software application for creating a wireless access point
- Mobile hotspot, also known as Tethering, sharing of a mobile device's Internet connection
- HotSpot (virtual machine), the Java Virtual Machine originally developed by Sun and the current reference implementation of the Java programming language
- Screen hotspot, an area enabled for user interactivity on a display
Science and healthcare
- Hotspot (geology), an area of unusually high volcanic activity
- Hot spot (veterinary medicine), an irritated skin lesion
- Hot spot, a location with a high level of radioactive contamination
- Biodiversity hotspot, a region of significant variety and variability of life
- Hot spot effect in subatomic physics, regions of high energy density or temperature
- Recombination hotspot, a region in a genome
Other uses
- Hot spot (casting), a metal casting defect
- Hot Spot (cricket), an infrared tracking system
- Airport hot spots, locations where aircraft collisions with ground equipment may occur
- Hotspot camp, a refugee camp that serves as an initial reception point
- Pyotraumatic dermatitis (also known as hot spots), a common skin dog infection
See also
Topics referred to by the same term
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