Hot or the acronym HOT may refer to:

Food and drink

* Pungency, in food, a spicy or hot quality *Hot, a wine tasting descriptor

Places

* Hot district, a district of Chiang Mai province, Thailand ** Hot subdistrict, a sub-district of Hot District, Thailand **

Tha Kham, Chiang Mai Tha Kham is a subdistrict municipality (thesaban tambon) in Hot District in the south of Chiang Mai Province Chiang Mai ( th, เชียงใหม่, ; nod, , ) is the largest Province (''changwat'') of Thailand. It lies in upper no ...

, also known as Hot, a town in Hot District, Chiang Mai province, Thailand * Hot, Albania, a village in the Malësi e Madhe municipality, Shkodër County, Albania

Music

H.O.T. H.O.T. (; pronounced "H. O. T.", acronym for Highfive Of Teenagers) was a South Korean boy band that was created by SM Entertainment in 1996. They are considered to be the first K-pop ''idol group'' and their successful formula became the model ...

pronounced "H. O. T.", (High-Five of Teenagers), a South Korean boy band * Hawaii Opera Theatre, an opera company in Honolulu, Hawaii * Hot (American vocal group), best known for 1977 hit "Angel in Your Arms" 1976–1980 *Hot 97, branding for hip-hop radio station WQHT in New York City

Albums

* ''Hot'' (Freda Payne album), 1979 * ''Hot'' (Half Japanese album), 1995 * ''Hot'' (Inna album) or the title song (see below), 2009 * ''Hot'' (James Brown album) or the title song (see below), 1976 * ''Hot'' (Mel B album), 2000 * ''Hot'' (Paul Bley album), 1985 * ''Hot'' (Squirrel Nut Zippers album), 1996 * ''Hot'' (EP), by Taeyang, or the title song, 2008

Songs

* "Hot" (Avril Lavigne song), 2007 * "Hot" (Beatnuts song), 2004 * "Hot" (Inna song), 2008 * "Hot" (Pia Mia song), 2020 * "Hot" (Young Thug song), 2019 *" Hot (I Need to Be Loved, Loved, Loved)", by James Brown, 1975 *"Hot", by Aya Nakamura from '' Aya'', 2020 *"Hot!", by Lisa Lopes from ''

Supernova A supernova is a powerful and luminous explosion of a star. It has the plural form supernovae or supernovas, and is abbreviated SN or SNe. This transient astronomical event occurs during the last evolutionary stages of a massive star or when ...

'', 2001 *"Hot", by Parah Dice, 2019 *"Hot", by Smash Mouth from '' Get the Picture?'', 2003 *"Hot", by Twice from '' Fancy You'', 2019

Transport

*Head-of-train device, a console for the end-of-train device * High-occupancy toll lane, a variable toll payable by some road users *HOT, the IATA and FAA LID codes for Memorial Field Airport in the state of Arkansas, US *HOT, the MTR station code for Ho Tin stop in Hong Kong, China *HOT, the National Rail code for Henley-on-Thames railway station in the county of Oxfordshire, UK

Other uses

* HOT Bowl or C.H.A.M.P.S. Heart of Texas Bowl, a college football game * HOT (missile), an anti-tank missile system (French: ) *A series of psychedelic phenethylamines: ** HOT-2 ** HOT-7 ** HOT-17 * Hawaii Ocean Time-series, an oceanographic time-series study *

Highly optimized tolerance In applied mathematics, highly optimized tolerance (HOT) is a method of generating power law behavior in systems by including a global optimization principle. It was developed by Jean M. Carlson and John Doyle in the early 2000s. For some syst ...

, a general framework for studying complexity *Higher-order thought, a concept in higher-order thought theories of consciousness * Hot (Israel), an Israeli cable company * Hawkes Ocean Technologies, a developer of deep sea equipment *Hot, cold, wet, and dry are aspects of the discredited theory of humorism