Hot spot
Hot spot or hotspot (literally 'hot spot', analogously 'focal point') stands for:
- First reception hotspot , a registration center for refugees in the Schengen area
- Hot Spot (WLAN) , a wireless Internet access point
- Hotspot (databases) , data items in a database that are heavily accessed
- Hot spot (photovoltaics) , an area of a solar cell module
- the active point at the mouse pointer
- Hotspot (geology) , an unusually hot region of the earth's mantle that leads to increased volcanic activity in the overlying earth's crust
- Biodiversity hotspot , a region with a high, severely threatened biodiversity
- Hot spot (radioactivity) , a highly radioactively contaminated, narrowly delimited place
- Hot spot (nuclear medicine) , a point with increased radionuclide coverage during scintigraphy
- Hotspot (genetics) , a section of DNA with an increased rate of recombination
- a localized skin inflammation, see pyotraumatic dermatitis
- Hotspot (epidemiology) , a region with an acutely increased local incidence of a disease
Hot spot u. also mean:
- Hot Spot - Playing With Fire (1990), an American film
- Hotspot (Pet Shop Boys Album) , an album by the Pet Shop Boys released in 2020
- HotSpot , a Java Virtual Machine with dynamic optimization
Wiktionary: Hot Spot - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
