Lot, LOT, The Lot or similar may refer to:

Common meanings

Areas

Land lot In real estate, a land lot or plot of land is a tract or parcel of land owned or meant to be owned by some owner(s). A plot is essentially considered a parcel of real property in some countries or immovable property (meaning practically the sam ...

, an area of land * Parking lot, for automobiles *

Backlot A backlot is an area behind or adjoining a movie studio containing permanent exterior buildings for outdoor scenes in filmmaking or television productions, or space for temporary set construction. Uses Some movie studios build a wide variety of ...

, in movie production

Sets of items

*A great many of something, as in, "There are a lot of beetles," or "There are lots of beetles." * Lot number, in batch production *Lot, a set of goods for sale together in an

auction An auction is usually a process of Trade, buying and selling Good (economics), goods or Service (economics), services by offering them up for Bidding, bids, taking bids, and then selling the item to the highest bidder or buying the item from th ...

; or a quantity of a financial instrument

Chance

Sortition In governance, sortition is the selection of public officer, officials or jurors at random, i.e. by Lottery (probability), lottery, in order to obtain a representative sample. In ancient Athenian democracy, sortition was the traditional and pr ...

(drawing lots) ** Cleromancy, divination by casting lots **Arabian lots, or Arabic parts, an astrological divination technique

People

* Lot (name), including a list of people with the given name *

Lot (biblical person) Lot (; ''Lōṭ'', lit. "veil" or "covering"; ''Lṓt''; ''Lūṭ''; Syriac: ܠܘܛ ''Lōṭ'') was a man mentioned in the biblical Book of Genesis, chapters 11–14 and 19. Notable events in his life recorded in Genesis include his journey ...

, figure in the Book of Genesis * King Lot, in Arthurian legend

Places

* Lot, Belgium, a village in the municipality of Beersel *

Lot (department) Lot (; �l is a department in the Occitanie region of France. Named after the Lot River, it lies in the southwestern part of the country and had a population of 174,094 in 2019.Lot (river) The Lot (), originally the Olt (; ), is a river in France. It is a right-bank tributary of the Garonne. It rises in the Cévennes mountains, flowing west through Quercy, where it flows into the Garonne near Aiguillon, Lot-et-Garonne, Aiguillon, a ...

, in southern France * Lostock railway station, Bolton, England * Lewis University Airport, Illinois, US * The Lot, or Samuel Goldwyn Studio, Hollywood, California, US

Arts and media

Film and television

* ''The Lot'' (TV series), a short-lived AMC series * The Lot (cinema), an American movie theater chain *

, in movie production ** The Lot, or Samuel Goldwyn Studio, Hollywood, California, US *'' Legends of Tomorrow'', a science fiction series *, a character in the Dutch television show '' Sesamstraat'' (''Sesame Street'')

Other media

* ''The Lot'' (album), a 2013 compilation by Roger Taylor * The Lot Radio, an online radio station in New York City *"Lot", a story by Ward Moore * "Lot", by Christie Front Drive from '' Christie Front Drive'', 1994

Businesses and organisations

* LOT Polish Airlines, the flag carrier airline of Poland * The LOT Network Solution, a membership organization to avoid patent litigation * National Weather Service Chicago, Illinois (WFO ID LOT) * The Lot (cinema), an American movie theater chain

Other uses

* Lot (unit), a unit of mass *Large Orbiting Telescope, the

Hubble Space Telescope The Hubble Space Telescope (HST or Hubble) is a space telescope that was launched into low Earth orbit in 1990 and remains in operation. It was not the Orbiting Solar Observatory, first space telescope, but it is one of the largest and most ...

*lot, a device for steering a boat, as mentioned in Belyana * Language of thought, a philosophical hypothesis