Hotspot

Hotspot or Hot spot may refer to:

Geography

• Hot Spot, Kentucky, a community in the United States

Arts and entertainment

Fictional characters

• Hot Spot (Transformers), the name of several Transformers characters

Film

• Hot Spot (1941 film) the original title of I Wake Up Screaming
• The Hot Spot, a 1990 film with Don Johnson and Jennifer Connelly

Literature

• Hot Spot (comics), a name for the DC Comics character Isaiah Crockett

Music and theater

• Hot Spot (musical), a 1963 musical
• "Hot Spot" (song), by Foxy Brown

Computers

• Hot spot (computer science), region of a program where a significant amount of computation occurs
• Hotspot (Wi-Fi), a Wi-Fi network access point or area
  • Connectify Hotspot, a software application for creating a wireless access point
  • T-Mobile HotSpot, a service that allows mobile phone connections via a WiFi connection
• HotSpot, a Java Virtual Machine from Oracle
• Screen hotspot, an area on which computer users click or hover for interactivity
• Hot spot, a database object which is frequently being accessed
• Hot spot, an area which is customized by users in software frameworks

Science and medicine

• Hot spot (veterinary medicine), a common name for irritated skin lesions in pets
• Hot spot effect in subatomic physics, regions of high energy density or temperature
• Hotspot (geology), an area of unusually high volcanic activity
• Biodiversity hotspot, a region of significant biodiversity
• Recombination hotspot, a DNA position

Other

• Hot spot (casting), a metal casting defect
• Hot Spot (cricket), an infrared tracking system used in cricket
• Airport hot spots, locations where aircraft collisions with ground equipment may occur

See also

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