hot spot
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- noun
- /hɑt spɑt/
- Specialized
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punto caliente
- Steam rises from hot spots in the half-frozen Grmsvtn Lake.
- hot spot temperature
So F MRI when you see these like hot spots in the brain is really just looking at blood flow.
- So F MRI when you see these like hot spots in the brain is really just looking at blood flow.
Examples
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At the scene of a house fire, firemen look for the hot spot.
Blog text (34) -
"And firefighters are still working in there trying to put out hot spots."
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St. Ed knew that when a radioactive cloud created a hot spot,
Fiction book (1993) -
Jason had misjudged the grill's hot spot, and the second chicken breast was overdone.
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Deep beneath the geysers and Hot Springs of Yellowstone Caldera lies a magma chamber produced by a hot spot in the Earth's mantle.
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Radiation levels at a hot spot six miles away are said to be ten times normal.
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A 12-mile evacuation zone teeming with radiation hot spots surrounds the plant.
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Like the Hawaiian Islands, Yellowstone overlies a hot spot in the Earth's crust.
Synonyms
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A very hot place where heat or radiation is stronger than nearby areas
How Hot
- Specialized
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The constituents 'hot' (active, popular) + 'spot' (place) yield a plausible meaning of a popular or active location, but the specific technological sense 'place or device providing Wi‑Fi' is a conventionalized, somewhat specialized extension that a B1 learner would not reliably derive from the parts alone. Many languages borrow the term 'hotspot' for Wi‑Fi, which can aid recognition, but the leap to the technical internet-access sense remains only partially predictable.
Etymology
Hot spot comes from the picture of a small hot spot that is warmer than the area around it, and because heat or radiation builds there it means 'a place with higher temperature or radiation than its surroundings'.