Hotspot, Hot Spot or Hot spot may refer to:

Places

Hot Spot, Kentucky Hot Spot is an Unincorporated area#United States, unincorporated community and former coal town in Letcher County, Kentucky, United States. It was named for the Hot Spot Coal Company. Other names for the community have been Smoot Creek, Dalna, ...

, 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

* ''Hot Spot'' (1941 film), later retitled ''I Wake Up Screaming'' * ''Hot Spot'' (1945 film), a Private Snafu film * ''

The Hot Spot ''The Hot Spot'' is a 1990 American neo-noir romantic thriller film directed by Dennis Hopper, based on the 1953 novel ''Hell Hath No Fury'' by Charles Williams, who also co-wrote the screenplay. It stars Don Johnson, Virginia Madsen, and Jenn ...

'', a 1990 neo-noir film

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

* ''Hot Spot'' (board game), a 1979 board game published by Metagaming Concepts * "Hot Spot" (''Burn Notice''), a television episode * ''Hot Spot'' (musical), 1963 * "Hot Spot" (song), by Foxy Brown * ''Hotspot'' (album), a 2020 album by Pet Shop Boys * ''The Hot Spot'' (Podcast), a GameSpot podcast

Computing

Hot spot (computer programming) A hot spot in computer science is most usually defined as a region of a computer program where a high proportion of executed instructions occur or where most time is spent during the program's execution (not necessarily the same thing since some i ...

, a compute-intensive region of a program * Hot spot, an area which is customizable by users in

software framework In computer programming, a software framework is a software abstraction that provides generic functionality which developers can extend with custom code to create applications. It establishes a standard foundation for building and deploying soft ...

s *

Wi-Fi hotspot A hotspot is a physical location where people can obtain Internet access, typically using Wi-Fi technology, via a wireless local-area network (WLAN) using a router connected to an Internet service provider. Public hotspots may be created by ...

, a wireless network access point or area **

Connectify Connectify () is an American software company that develops networking software for consumers, professionals and companies. Connectify Hotspot is a virtual software router, router and Wi-Fi repeater software for Microsoft Windows. Speedify is a ...

Hotspot, a software application for creating a wireless access point ** Mobile hotspot, also known as

Tethering Tethering or phone-as-modem (PAM) is the sharing of a mobile device's cellular data connection with other connected computers. It effectively turns the transmitting device into a modem to allow others to use its cellular network as a gateway for ...

, sharing of a mobile device's Internet connection *

HotSpot (virtual machine) HotSpot, released as Java HotSpot Performance Engine, is a Java virtual machine for desktop and server computers, developed by Sun Microsystems which was purchased by and became a division of Oracle Corporation in 2010. Its features improved ...

, the Java Virtual Machine originally developed by Sun and the current reference implementation of the Java programming language *

Screen hotspot A screen hotspot, in computing, provides a special area on the display screen of a computer for hyperlinking or for other GUI-based activity (such as re-direction, pop-up display, macro execution, etc.). Hotspots may not look visually distinct ...

, an area enabled for user interactivity on a display

Science and healthcare

Hotspot (geology) In geology, hotspots (or hot spots) are volcanic locales thought to be fed by underlying Mantle (geology), mantle that is anomalously hot compared with the surrounding mantle. Examples include the Hawaii hotspot, Hawaii, Iceland hotspot, Iceland, ...

, an area of unusually high volcanic activity *

Hot spot (veterinary medicine) Pyotraumatic dermatitis, also known as a hot spot or acute moist dermatitis, is a common infection of the skin surface of dogs, particularly those with thick or long coats. It occurs following self-inflicted trauma of the skin. Pyotraumatic derma ...

, an irritated skin lesion * Hot spot, a location with a high level of

radioactive contamination Radioactive contamination, also called radiological pollution, is the deposition of, or presence of Radioactive decay, radioactive substances on surfaces or within solids, liquids, or gases (including the human body), where their presence is uni ...

Biodiversity hotspot A biodiversity hotspot is a ecoregion, biogeographic region with significant levels of biodiversity that is threatened by human habitation. Norman Myers wrote about the concept in two articles in ''The Environmentalist'' in 1988 and 1990, after ...

, a region of significant variety and variability of life *

Hot spot effect in subatomic physics Hot spots in subatomic physics are regions of high energy density or temperature in hadronic or nuclear matter. Finite size effects Hot spots are a manifestation of the finite size of the system: in subatomic physics this refers both to atomic nuc ...

, regions of high energy density or temperature *

Recombination hotspot Recombination hotspots are regions in a genome that exhibit elevated rates of recombination relative to a neutral expectation. The recombination rate within hotspots can be hundreds of times that of the surrounding region. Recombination hotspots r ...

, a region in a genome * A risky place on an airport, depicted on

airport diagram Airport diagrams, airport charts, or aerodrome charts are airport maps that are designed to assist ground traffic to move around complex runway and taxiway configurations. Regulation International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Annex 4 "Aero ...

Other uses

Hot spot (casting) A casting defect is an undesired irregularity in a casting (metalworking), metal casting process. Some defects can be tolerated while others can be repaired, otherwise they must be eliminated. They are broken down into five main categories: ''gas ...

, a metal casting defect *

Hot Spot (cricket) Hot Spot is an infra-red, infrared imaging system used in cricket to determine whether the ball has struck the batsman, bat or pad. Hot Spot requires two infrared cameras on opposite sides of the ground above the field of play that are continuou ...

, an infrared tracking system *

Airport hot spots An airport is an aerodrome with extended facilities, mostly for commercial air transport. They usually consist of a landing area, which comprises an aerially accessible open space including at least one operationally active surface such ...

, locations where aircraft collisions with ground equipment may occur *

Hotspot camp A hotspot camp is a refugee camp designed as the initial reception point for refugees on the borders of the European Union. History Originally established in 2015, the intention of the hotspots was to coordinate receiving, identifying, and registe ...

, a refugee camp that serves as an initial reception point * Pyotraumatic dermatitis (also known as hot spots), a common skin infection for dogs