Spot or SPOT may refer to:

Places

* Spot, North Carolina, a community in the United States * The Spot, New South Wales, a locality in Sydney, Australia *

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, sometimes called the South Pole Overland Traverse

People

* Spot (producer), the house producer and engineer for the label SST Records * Spot (rapper) * Spot Collins (1922-1996), American football player and coach * Jerry Chamberlain (known as "Spot"), the guitarist for the rock group the Swirling Eddies * Scott Draves (known as "Spot"), digital artist and VJ * Moondog Spot, a ring name for professional wrestler Larry Booker

Advertising

Radio spot In the United States, commercial radio stations make most of their revenue by selling airtime to be used for running radio advertisements. These advertisements are the result of a business or a service providing a valuable consideration, usually ...

, an over-the-air advertisement * TV spot, a televised advertisement * Underwriting spot, an announcement made on public broadcasting outlets, especially in the United States, in exchange for funding

Animals

* Spot, a dog that remained faithful after his master's death, described in the List of individual dogs * Spot Fetcher, a dog owned by U.S. President George W. Bush

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional characters

* Spot, a character in the 2015 Disney/Pixar animated film '' The Good Dinosaur'' *

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, in ''101 Dalmatians: The Series'' * Spot (comics), a Spider-Man villain * Spot (franchise), the titular puppy in a series of children's books and animated television shows created by Eric Hill * Spot (''Star Trek''), a pet cat in ''Star Trek: The Next Generation'' * Spot, a pet dog in the '' Dick and Jane'' textbook series * Spot, a cat in the cartoon series '' Hong Kong Phooey'' * Spot, a pet dog from the William Joyce series '' Rolie Polie Olie'' * Spot, a pet amoeba in the animated series ''SpongeBob SquarePants'' season 11 * Spot, a deity in a sketch by Canadian comedy troupe The Kids In The Hall * Spot, a pet dragon in the TV series '' The Munsters'' * Spot, Dairine's sentient computer in the Young Wizards series *Spot, a dog in the '' Isle of Dogs'' movie

Music

* ''Spot'' (album), by the synthpop band And One * Spot (music festival), a music festival held in Denmark * "Sex Pistols On Tour Secretly" or SPOTS, a name the

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toured under in the United Kingdom

Biology and healthcare

* Spot (fish), a fish (''Leiostomus xanthurus'') * SpoT, a bacterial protein that hydrolizes (p)ppGpp * Spot, any of several typically spot-forming fungal or bacterial leaf diseases on plants, caused, for example, by ''Diplocarpon'' variants ( black spot on roses) *

Cherry angioma Cherry angioma, also called cherry hemangioma, is a small bright red dome-shaped bump on the skin. It ranges between 0.5 – 6 mm in diameter and usually several are present, typically on the chest and arms, and increasing in number with age. ...

, called Campbell de Morgan spots, small red spots on the skin (usually harmless) * Metrorrhagia or spotting, vaginal bleeding not synchronized with a menstrual period * Pimple or spot, a skin blemish

Brands and enterprises

* SPoT Coffee, a coffee chain * Spotify (NYSE: SPOT), Swedish media company * Spot, a mascot for 7 Up soft drinks

Finance

* Spot, American slang for a bill of currency, e.g., a "Ten spot" is $10 * Spot, old Australian and New Zealand slang for one hundred dollars * Spot date, a financial term * Spot market, a financial market in which financial instruments or commodities are traded for immediate delivery ** Spot price, a financial term for price of trade done today

Technology

SPOT (satellite) SPOT (french: Satellite Pour l’Observation de la Terre, lit. "Satellite for observation of Earth") is a commercial high-resolution optical Earth imaging satellite system operating from space. It is run by Spot Image, based in Toulouse, France. ...

, Satellite Pour l'Observation de la Terre, Earth-observing satellite family * Single Point of Truth or SPOT, a principle aimed at reducing duplication in software engineering * Smart Personal Objects Technology or SPOT, a Microsoft initiative * SPOT Satellite Messenger * Spotlight, called spot for short * Spot, a four-legged canine-inspired robot made by Boston Dynamics * Spot, a 3D test model of a cow

Other meanings

* Spot (professional wrestling), a pre-planned wrestling move or series of moves * SPOT (TSA program), or "Screening of Passengers by Observation Techniques", an airport security technique * Spot, American slang for a

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or club * Spots (cannabis), a method of smoking cannabis, often called hotknifing in the United States * USS ''Spot'', an American submarine launched in 1944 and sold to Chile and renamed in 1962