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 A parking lot or car park (British English), also known as a car lot, is a cleared area intended for parking vehicles. The term usually refers to an area dedicated only for parking, with a durable or semi-durable surface. In most jurisdi ...

, 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 A lot number is an identification number assigned to a particular quantity or lot of material from a single manufacturer. Lot numbers can typically be found on the outside of packaging. For cars, a lot number is combined with a serial number to fo ...

, 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 Cleromancy is a form of sortition (casting of lots) in which an outcome is determined by means that normally would be considered random, such as the rolling of dice ( astragalomancy), but that are sometimes believed to reveal the will of a deit ...

, divination by casting lots **Arabian lots, or Arabic parts, an astrological divination technique

People

Lot (name) Lot is a rare given name, taken from Lot (biblical person), the biblical figure. People with the name include: * Lot Abu Hassan (born 1984), Malaysian footballer * Lot Chiwunga (born 1986), Zimbabwean footballer * Lot Clark (1788–1862), American ...

, 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 King Lot , also spelled Loth or Lott (Lleu or Llew in Welsh), is a British monarch in Arthurian legend. He was introduced in Geoffrey of Monmouth's pseudohistorical ''Historia Regum Britanniae'' (c. 1136) as King Arthur's brother-in-law, who s ...

, 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 ''DC's Legends of Tomorrow'', or simply ''Legends of Tomorrow'', is an American Time travel in fiction, time travel superhero fiction, superhero television series developed by Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim, Andrew Kreisberg, and Phil Klemmer, ...

'', 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