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:

Contents 1 Geology 2 Steel Construction 3 Computer science 4 Biology 5 Arts and entertainment 6 Criminal justice 7 Fictional 8 Lottery 9 Veterinary

[edit] Geology

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

[edit] Steel Construction

• Hotspot, an area of a cross section that has particularly large tensions, thereby developing heat.

[edit] 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

• Software framework hot spots describe the variation points in software frameworks.

• 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] Criminal justice

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

[edit] Fictional

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

[edit] Lottery

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

[edit] Veterinary

• Hot spot is one of the many names for a raw, irriated lesion that results from a dog constantly scratching, chewing, and licking at an area of itchy skin. As the lesion grows, secondary infection from opportunisic bacteria can occur, causing more discomfort and leading the dog to scratch and chew even more. Other names include mosit eczema, summer sores, acute moist pyoderma, acute moist dermatitis, pyotraumatic dermatitis, or acute pyotraumatic dermatitis. As one of their names suggests, it is more common in the summer; however they can occur at any time of the year. Many dogs that develop them have allergies; they are particularly common in dogs with flea allergies. But any sort of irriation to the skin can result in a hot spot.