hot spot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɒtˌspɒt/
ipa: /ˈhɑtˌspɑt/
Forms: form: hot spots
form: hotspot
Etymology: From hot + spot.
Senses: examples: text: [Y]our microwave may have an area in which more energy is concentrated. To test for a hot spot, place sliced white bread across the bottom of your microwave, so that the slices are touching, forming a solid layer.
ref: 2003, Nancy Berkoff, Vegan Microwave Cookbook, page 13:
glosses: A location which has a higher temperature or amount of radiation than surrounding areas.
topics: business
firefighting
forestry
government
glosses: A location which has a higher temperature or amount of radiation than surrounding areas.
A part of a forest fire which is burning actively.
examples: text: While researchers can see the path that Yellowstone burned as the hot spot migrated from Oregon across Idaho and into Wyoming, discerning one eruption from another has been a chore as most volcanic deposits are scattered across vast landscapes in a chaotic jumble.
ref: 2020 June 18, Matt Kaplan, “Yellowstone’s supervolcano is a hot spot, but it may be calming down”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Apr 2021:
topics: astronomy
geography
geology
natural-sciences
planetology
glosses: A location which has a higher temperature or amount of radiation than surrounding areas.
The surface manifestation of a plume of molten material that rises from deep in a celestial body's mantle.
glosses: A location which has a higher temperature or amount of radiation than surrounding areas.
An area of high radioactive contamination.
qualifier: nuclear physics
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A location which has a higher temperature or amount of radiation than surrounding areas.
Synonym of heiligenschein (“an optical phenomenon which creates a bright spot around the shadow of the viewer's head, when the surface on which the shadow falls has special optical characteristics”).
synonyms: word: heiligenschein
extra: an optical phenomenon which creates a bright spot around the shadow of the viewer's head, when the surface on which the shadow falls has special optical characteristics
glosses: A location which has a higher temperature or amount of radiation than surrounding areas.
An infected lesion in dogs or other furry mammals caused by excessive itching.
examples: text: Great guns! messmates, but if Flint was living, this would be a hot spot for you and me. Six they were, and six are we; and bones is what they are now.
ref: 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Treasure Hunt—Flint’s Pointer”, in Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC, part VI (Captain Silver), page 265:
text: For instance, Toronto's Bloor Street Viaduct was, alas, a suicide hotspot – in fact, it was second only to the Golden Gate Bridge in terms of the number of bridge-related suicides.
ref: 2010, Thomas [Ellis] Joiner[, Jr.], “Suicidal Behavior”, in Myths about Suicide, Cambridge, Mass.; London: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 154:
text: I might never have learned my name or met my birth family if I hadn't ended up in the hospital in Rhode Island in 2007, after traveling to a trifecta of malaria hotspots: Mali, Egypt and Colombia.
ref: 2013 November 27, Emily Jane O’Dell, “Deep cover [print version: International Herald Tribune Magazine, 2013, page 47]”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 Dec 2013:
glosses: A place notable for a high level of activity or danger.
glosses: A place notable for a high level of activity or danger.
A dangerous place of violent political unrest.
synonyms: flash point
trouble spot
examples: text: It has been reported that an entertainment took place not long ago in a certain "hot spot" in New York City, and it has been charged that members of the Federal Communications Commission were present; that they got into a drunken brawl; and in the brawl some woman was hurt, her arm twisted.
ref: 1940 June 21, Charles W[illiam] Tobey, “Further Statement of Thad H. Brown, Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission, Washington, D.C.”, in Nomination of Thad H. Brown: Hearings before the Committee on Interstate Commerce, United States Senate, Seventy-sixth Congress, Third Session on the Nomination of Thad H. Brown on Reappointment as Federal Communications Commissioner […], Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 81:
glosses: A place notable for a high level of activity or danger.
A lively and entertaining place, such as a nightclub.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A place notable for a high level of activity or danger.
A part of an application that consumes a significant amount of execution time.
topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A place notable for a high level of activity or danger.
A part of a control (“an interactive interface element”) that responds dynamically as a user moves a pointer over it (for example, a part of an image map that contains a hyperlink which can be clicked on with a cursor).
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A place notable for a high level of activity or danger.
A location in which Wi-Fi Internet access is available.
antonyms: notspot
topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: A place notable for a high level of activity or danger.
Ellipsis of biodiversity hotspot (“a place with a significant level of biodiversity, particularly if the flora and fauna are threatened with loss of their habitat”).
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A place notable for a high level of activity or danger.
The region of a gene in which there is a higher than normal rate of mutation.
Derived terms: biodiversity hotspot
notspot