Hotspot or Hot spot may refer to:
Places
- Hot Spot, Kentucky, a community in the United States
Arts, entertainment, and media
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
- Hotspot (Wi-Fi), a wireless network access point or area
- Connectify Hotspot, a software application for creating a wireless access point
- T-Mobile HotSpot, a service that allows mobile phone connections via a WiFi connection
- HotSpot (virtual machine), a Java virtual machine
- 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
See also
- All pages with titles beginning with Hotspot
- All pages with titles containing Hotspot