hot spot
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hot spot
also hot·spot (hŏt'spŏt')
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- An area in which there is dangerous unrest or hostile action: "opportunities . . . for United Nations forces to play a constructive role in some of the world's hot spots" (Paul Lewis).
- Informal. A lively and popular place, such as a nightclub.
- An area of intense heat, radiation, or activity.
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(DOD, NATO) Region in a contaminated area in which the level of radioactive contamination is considerably greater than in neighboring regions in the area.
Oxford Dictionary of Biochemistry:
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hot spot
any site at which mutations are observed with an unusually high frequency. Such sites have a highly enhanced, inherent susceptibility to mutation that cannot be ascribed to the type of base pair involved, the way in which it is altered, or the resulting change in any protein encoded by the DNA molecule.
| hot room, hot laboratory, hot | |
| hot start PCR, hour, hr |
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Hot spot may refer to:
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Arts and entertainment
- Hot Spot (musical), a 1963 Musical
- The Hot Spot, a 1990 film with Don Johnson and Jennifer Connelly
- Hot Spot (song), by Foxy Brown
- Hot Spot (Transformers), the name of several Transformers characters
- Hot Spot (comics), a name for the DC Comics character Isaiah Crockett
Science and medicine
- Hotspot (geology), an area of unusually high volcanic activity
- Hot spot effect in subatomic physics, regions of high energy density or temperature in hadronic or nuclear matter
- Biodiversity hotspot, a region of significant biodiversity
- Recombination hotspot, a DNA position where genetic recombination occurs with above-average frequency
- Hot spot (veterinary medicine), a raw animal lesion
Computers
- Hot spot (computer science), region of a program where a significant amount of computation occurs
- Hot spot, a database object which is frequently being accessed
- Hot spot, an area which is customized by users in software frameworks
- Hotspot (Wi-Fi), a Wi-Fi network access point or area
- HotSpot, a Java Virtual Machine from Oracle
- Screen hotspot, an area on which computer users click or hover for interactivity
Other
- Hot Spot (cricket), an infrared tracking system used in cricket
- Hot spot (casting), a metal casting defect
- Airport hot spots, locations where aircraft collisions with ground equipment may occur
- T-Mobile HotSpot, a service that allows mobile phone connections via a WiFi connection
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Hotspot
Dansk (Danish)
n. - natklub, urocenter, brændpunkt
Français (French)
n. - (Journ, Pol) point chaud ou névralgique, pays de soleil, destination au soleil, boîte de nuit
Deutsch (German)
n. - heiße Gegend, Krisenherd, Nachtklub
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - θερμή περιοχή
Português (Portuguese)
n. - lugar (m) perigoso ou crítico, lugar (m) com concentração de calor, lugar (m) com radioatovidade alta (Fís.)
Русский (Russian)
горячая точка, злачное место, горячая зона, место перегрева
Español (Spanish)
n. - sitio donde la situación es crítica, salón de fiestas
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - oroshärd, inneställe, hotspot (tekn.)
中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
热点
中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 熱點
한국어 (Korean)
n. - 분쟁 지역, 과열점, 나이트클럽
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - איזור קטן וחם יחסית, מצב קשה, מוקד מתיחות/בעירה, מקום בילוי מדליק, איזור מזוהם
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American Heritage Dictionary
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2007, 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2009. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Roget's Thesaurus
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary Copyright © 1995 byHoughton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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US Defense Department Military Dictionary
US Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Words, 2003.
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Oxford Dictionary of Biochemistry
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