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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:
in geology

★ Hotspot (geology), a location above a hot upwelling plume of mantle.
in 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
in biology

★ Biodiversity hotspot, a region of significant biodiversity threatened with destruction

★ "hotspots", DNA positions where mutations occur very frequently

★ Recombination hotspot

★ Pyotraumatic dermatitis, a canine skin disorder
in arts and entertainment

★ Hot Spot (cricket), a 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" is 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

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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