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

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

See also

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

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