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Hot may refer to:

• Relatively high temperature. See also heat conduction.
• Can describe spicy food.
• Jargon used to describe radioactivity. "Be careful, the room is hot". More generally, it can refer to any area that threatens life. See: Hot zone.
• Jargon used extensively to describe molten metal, e.g., tonnes of hot metal produced over a certain period of time by a blast furnace.
• A 1970s pop music group whose best-known song is "Angel In Your Arms".
• In some areas of the United States, it is another name for a hot dog.
• Slang adjective describing something that has been stolen i.e Hot check.
• Slang adjective describing something or someone that is sexually attractive and/or provocative, as in, "Connie is freakin' hot!". See physical attractiveness and sexual attraction.
• Slang synonym for "impressive", "great", "cool", or "excellent". The usage of the word in this manner is notably used by Paris Hilton as a catch phrase: "That's hot!".
• An acronym for Heal over Time. (antonym: damage over time)

Hot is also:

• a cable television company in Israel.