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Hot spot
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- 1 A location which has a higher temperature or amount of radiation than surrounding areas.
"[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."
- 2 a lively entertainment spot wordnet
- 3 A location which has a higher temperature or amount of radiation than surrounding areas.; A part of a forest fire which is burning actively.
- 4 a point of relatively intense heat or radiation wordnet
- 5 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.
"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."
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- 6 a place of political unrest and potential violence wordnet
- 7 A location which has a higher temperature or amount of radiation than surrounding areas.; An area of high radioactive contamination.
- 8 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”).
- 9 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.
- 10 A place notable for a high level of activity or danger. figuratively
"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."
- 11 A place notable for a high level of activity or danger.; A dangerous place of violent political unrest. figuratively
- 12 A place notable for a high level of activity or danger.; A lively and entertaining place, such as a nightclub. figuratively
"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."
- 13 A place notable for a high level of activity or danger.; A part of an application that consumes a significant amount of execution time. figuratively
- 14 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). figuratively
- 15 A place notable for a high level of activity or danger.; A location in which Wi-Fi Internet access is available. Internet, figuratively
- 16 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”). abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, figuratively
- 17 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. figuratively
Etymology
From hot + spot.
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