Hotspot

{{wiktionary|hot spot}} '''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=== * Isaiah Crockett, DC Comics character also known as Hot Spot * 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 * Hot Spot (2024 film), an Indian Tamil-language anthology film * Hot Spot (2026 film), a science fiction thriller 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 * ''BattleTech: Hot Spots'', a 1993 collection of scenarios for ''BattleTech''

==Computing == * Hot spot (computer programming), a computer-intensive region of a program * 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, 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 with a high rate of recombination * A risky place on an airport, depicted on airport diagrams

==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 infection for dogs

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