Hotspot, Hot Spot or Hot spot may refer to:

Places

* Hot Spot, Kentucky, a community in the United States

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional entities

Hot Spot (comics) Isaiah Crockett (currently known as Hot Spot, formerly Joto, and originally named Slagger, Issaiah) is a character appearing in media published by DC Comics. The character is a superhero and former member of the Teen Titans. Publication history I ...

, 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'', 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 wireless network access point or area ** Connectify Hotspot, a software application for creating a wireless access point ** Mobile hotspot, sharing of a mobile device's Internet connection * HotSpot (virtual machine), 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), an irritated skin lesion * Hot spot, a location with a high level of radioactive contamination * Biodiversity hotspot, a region of significant variety and variability of life * Hot spot effect in subatomic physics, regions of high energy density or temperature * Recombination hotspot, a region in a genome

Other uses

* Hot spot (casting), a metal casting defect * Hot Spot (cricket), an infrared tracking system * Airport hot spots, 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 primaril ...

, a refugee camp that serves as an initial reception point *

Pyotraumatic dermatitis 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 ...

(also known as hot spots), a common skin dog infection