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hot spot definition

☆ hot spot

  1. Informal an area of actual or potential trouble or violence
  2. Informal
    1. a lively, popular place for entertainment or socializing
    2. any place regarded as a center for a specified activity or interest
  3. an area of especially intense heat or radiation
  4. Comput. a building, business, or locality where wireless access to the Internet is provided or is available

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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