Hotspot
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A hot spot is a region of high or special activity within a larger area of low or normal activity; it may refer to:
- Hotspot (geology), a location above a hot upwelling plume of mantle.
- Hot Spot, a keno game offered by the California Lottery
- Hot spot (veterinary medicine)
Computer science
- Software framework hot spots describe the variation points in software frameworks.
- Hotspot (Wi-Fi), a Wi-Fi access point or area, in particular for connecting to the Internet
- HotSpot, a Java Virtual Machine from Sun Microsystems
- Screen hotspots, especially in GUI applications, provide areas on which computer-users click or hover for extra information-processing
Biology
- Biodiversity hotspot, a region of significant biodiversity threatened with destruction
- Mutation hotspot, DNA positions where mutations occur with above-average frequency
- Recombination hotspot, DNA positions where Genetic recombination occurs with above-average frequency
Arts and entertainment
- Hot Spot (cricket), an infra-red tracking system used in cricket
- Hot Spot (musical), a 1963 musical with lyrics by Martin Charnin and music by Mary Rodgers
- Hot Spot (song), a song by hip-hop rap artist Foxy Brown
- The Hot Spot, a 1990 film with Don Johnson and Jennifer Connelly
- The Hotspot, a weekly podcast by the editors of GameSpot discussing various gaming-related news and events
- Hot Spot (comics), is a fictional character in publications from DC Comics
- Hot Spot (Transformers) is the name of several Transformers characters
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