Bot

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Contents 1 People 2 Places 3 In computers 4 Acronyms 5 Other uses 6 See also

Bot or BOT or similar may refer to:

[edit] People

• Bernard Bot, Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs

[edit] Places

• Bot, municipality of the comarca of Terra Alta (Spain)

[edit] In computers

• Aimbot, a modification for a first-person shooter type game to provide assistance with aiming and shooting.
• Alienware Bot, line of budget desktop PCs manufactured by Alienware
• Bots (edi), open source EDI software
• BOTS, computer game
• Chatterbot, computer program designed to simulate an intelligent conversation with a human
• Desktop Bot, software that resides on a computer and indexes content for the purpose of searching, tagging, or distribution
• Internet bot, computer program which does automated tasks
  • Botnet, network of "zombie" computers used to carry out automated tasks such as spamming
  • Computer game bot, computer controlled player or opponent
  • IRC bot, computer program connected to an Internet Relay Chat server as a normal user

[edit] Acronyms

• Air Botswana (ICAO code)
• Bank of Taiwan
• Bank of Tanzania, Tanzania's central bank
• Bank of Thailand, Thailand's central bank
• British Overseas Territory
• Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT), a form of project financing

[edit] Other uses

• larva of the botfly
• Robot, mechanical device that can perform physical tasks
• Boten Anna, hit song in Sweden in the middle of 2006 about an IRC bot
• Bots (band), Dutch language folk rock group

[edit] See also

• Bott

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