Hotspot

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A hot spot is a region of high or special activity within a larger area of low or normal activity; it may refer to:

Geology

• Hotspot (geology), a location above a hot upwelling plume of mantle.

Computer science

• Hotspot (program), a set of computer instructions executed so frequently that, in older architectures, the memory chips could actually have a spot of higher temperature.

• Hotspot (database), a frequently accessed data item or object in a database

• Hotspot (Wi-Fi), a Wi-Fi access point or area, in particular for connecting to the Internet

• HotSpot, a Java Virtual Machine from Sun Microsystems

• Screen hotspots, especially in GUI applications, provide areas on which computer-users click or hover for extra information-processing

Biology

• Biodiversity hotspot, a region of significant biodiversity threatened with destruction
• Mutation hotspot, DNA positions where mutations occur with above-average frequency
• Recombination hotspot, DNA positions where Genetic recombination occurs with above-average frequency

Arts and entertainment

• Hot Spot (cricket), an infra-red tracking system used in cricket
• Hot Spot (musical), a 1963 musical with lyrics by Martin Charnin and music by Mary Rodgers
• Hot Spot (song), a song by hip-hop rap artist Foxy Brown
• The Hot Spot, a 1990 film with Don Johnson and Jennifer Connelly
• The Hotspot, a weekly podcast by the editors of GameSpot discussing various gaming-related news and events
• Hotspot (stage lighting), the center of a beam of light from a stage lighting instrument that is brighter than the surrounding light

Criminal justice

• Hot Spot (criminal justice), a location or address with a substantial clustering or concentration of crime events

Fictional

• Hot Spot (comics), is a fictional character in publications from DC Comics
• Hot Spot (Transformers) is the name of several Transformers characters

Lottery

• Hot Spot, a keno game offered by the California Lottery

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