Hotspot, Hot Spot or Hot spot may refer to:

Places

Hot Spot, Kentucky Hot Spot is an 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, Elsiecoal, and Premium. It has frequ ...

, 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) ''The Transformers'' is an American animated television series that originally aired from September 17, 1984, to November 11, 1987, in syndication based upon Hasbro's ''Transformers'' toy line. The first television series in the ''Transformer ...

, 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 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 Jennifer Connelly, and f ...

'', 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 an abstraction in which software, providing generic functionality, can be selectively changed by additional user-written code, thus providing application-specific software. It provides a standard ...

s *

Hotspot (Wi-Fi) 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 b ...

, 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 router software for Microsoft Windows, and Speedify is a mobile VPN service with channel ...

Hotspot, a software application for creating a wireless access point **

Mobile hotspot Tethering, or phone-as-modem (PAM) is the sharing of a mobile device's Internet connection with other connected computers. Connection of a mobile device with other devices can be done over wireless LAN (Wi-Fi), over Bluetooth or by physical conne ...

, 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 and now maintained and distributed by Oracle Corporation. It features improved performance via me ...

, 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 that is anomalously hot compared with the surrounding mantle. Examples include the Hawaii, Iceland, and Yellowstone hotspots. A hotspot's position on ...

, 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 substances on surfaces or within solids, liquids, or gases (including the human body), where their presence is unintended or undesirab ...

Biodiversity hotspot A biodiversity hotspot is a 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 which the co ...

, 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 re ...

, a region in a genome

Other uses

Hot spot (casting) A casting defect is an undesired irregularity in a 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 porosity'', ''shrinkage ...

, a metal casting defect *

Hot Spot (cricket) Hot Spot is an 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 continuously recordin ...

, an infrared tracking system *

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

, 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 The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located prima ...

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