hot spot

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- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- UK Pronunciation
- UK IPA
- [hot spot]
- /hɒt spɒt/
- /hɒt spɒt/

- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- [hot spot]
- /hɒt spɒt/

Definitions of hot spot words

noun Technical meaning of hot spot 1. (primarily used by C/Unix programmers, but spreading) It is received wisdom that in most programs, less than 10% of the code eats 90% of the execution time; if one were to graph instruction visits versus code addresses, one would typically see a few huge spikes amidst a lot of low-level noise. Such spikes are called "hot spots" and are good candidates for heavy optimisation or hand-hacking. The term is especially used of tight loops and recursions in the code's central algorithm, as opposed to (say) initial set-up costs or large but infrequent I/O operations. See tune, bum, hand-hacking. 2. The active location of a cursor on a bit-map display. "Put the mouse's hot spot on the "ON" widget and click the left button." 3. A screen region that is sensitive to mouse clicks, which trigger some action. Hypertext help screens are an example, in which a hot spot exists in the vicinity of any word for which additional material is available. 4. In a massively parallel computer with shared memory, the one location that all 10,000 processors are trying to read or write at once (perhaps because they are all doing a busy-wait on the same lock). 5. More generally, any place in a hardware design that turns into a performance bottleneck due to resource contention. 6. wireless hotspot. 1
countable noun hot spot You can refer to an exciting place where there is a lot of activity or entertainment as a hot spot. 0
countable noun hot spot You can refer to an area where there is fighting or serious political trouble as a hot spot. 0
noun hot spot an area of potential violence or political unrest 0
noun hot spot a lively nightclub or other place of entertainment 0
noun hot spot an area of great activity of a specific type 0

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hot spot popularity

A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 55% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.

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