Hotspot

Hotspot, Hot Spot or Hot spot may refer to:

Places

 * Hot Spot, Kentucky, a community in the United States

Fictional entities

 * Hot Spot (comics), a name for the DC Comics character Isaiah Crockett
 * Hot Spot (Transformers), any of several characters

Films

 * Hot Spot (1941 film), later retitled I Wake Up Screaming
 * Hot Spot (1945 film), a Private Snafu film
 * The Hot Spot, a 1990 neo-noir film

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

 * Hot Spot (board game), a 1979 board game published by Metagaming Concepts
 * "Hot Spot" (Burn Notice), a television episode
 * Hot Spot (musical), 1963
 * "Hot Spot" (song), by Foxy Brown
 * Hotspot (album), a 2020 album by Pet Shop Boys
 * The Hot Spot (Podcast), a GameSpot podcast

Computing

 * Hot spot (computer programming), a compute-intensive region of a program
 * Hot spot, an area which is customizable by users in software frameworks
 * Wi-Fi hotspot, a wireless network access point or area
 * Connectify Hotspot, a software application for creating a wireless access point
 * Mobile hotspot, also known as Tethering, sharing of a mobile device's Internet connection
 * HotSpot (virtual machine), the Java Virtual Machine originally developed by Sun and the current reference implementation of the Java programming language
 * Screen hotspot, an area enabled for user interactivity on a display

Science and healthcare

 * Hotspot (geology), an area of unusually high volcanic activity
 * Hot spot (veterinary medicine), an irritated skin lesion
 * Hot spot, a location with a high level of radioactive contamination
 * Biodiversity hotspot, a region of significant variety and variability of life
 * Hot spot effect in subatomic physics, regions of high energy density or temperature
 * Recombination hotspot, a region in a genome

Other uses

 * Hot spot (casting), a metal casting defect
 * Hot Spot (cricket), an infrared tracking system
 * Airport hot spots, locations where aircraft collisions with ground equipment may occur
 * Hotspot camp, a refugee camp that serves as an initial reception point
 * Pyotraumatic dermatitis (also known as hot spots), a common skin dog infection