Hotspot
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A hot spot forms a region of high or special activity within a larger area of low or normal activity. The term applies to different things in different contexts:
- Hotspot (crime mapping), an area containing high numbers of criminal incidents
- Hotspot (economic), an area of very rapid economic growth
- Hotspot (geology), a location that has experienced active volcanism for a long time
- DNA has positions called "hotspots" where mutations occur very frequently
- Biodiversity hotspot, a region of significant biodiversity threatened with destruction
- Hotspot (Wi-Fi), a Wi-Fi access point or area, in particular for connecting to the Internet
- Hot Spot (musical), a 1963 musical with lyrics by Martin Charnin and music by Mary Rodgers
- The Hot Spot, a 1990 film with Don Johnson and Jennifer Connelly
- Screen hotspots, especially in GUI applications, provide areas on which computer-users click or hover for extra information-processing
- HotSpot, the primary Java Virtual Machine produced by Sun Microsystems
- Hotspot (character), a character in the Teen Titans animated series
- Hot Spot (Transformers) is the name of several Transformers characters.
- "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 appears brighter than the surrounding light.
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