Hotspot

Hotspot 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 and television

• 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" (Burn Notice), a television episode

Music and theater

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

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
  • T-Mobile HotSpot, a service that allows mobile phone connections via a WiFi connection
• HotSpot, a Java virtual machine
• Screen hotspot, an area enabled for user interactivity on a display

Science and medicine

• Hot spot (veterinary medicine), an irritated skin lesion
• Hot spot effect in subatomic physics, regions of high energy density or temperature
• Hotspot (geology), an area of unusually high volcanic activity
• Hot spot, a location with a high level of radioactive contamination
• Biodiversity hotspot, a region of significant variety and variability of life
• 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
• Hot Spot (board game), a 1979 board game published by Metagaming Concepts
• The Hot Spot (Podcast), a GameSpot podcast

See also

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