Hotspot

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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
• Hotspot (Wi-Fi), a wireless network access point or area
  • Connectify Hotspot, a software application for creating a wireless access point
  • Mobile hotspot, 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

• All pages with titles beginning with Hotspot
• All pages with titles containing Hotspot

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