hot spot
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- noun
- /hɑt spɑt/
- Texting
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punto de acceso Wi-Fi
- Wi-Fi hot spots can connect anyone within 300 feet.
- Wi-Fi hot spot
Examples
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Yes, in the city, there is going to be more Wi-Fi available with AT&T Hot Spots, restaurants, and coffee shops offering wireless service.
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Wi-Fi hot spots, which allow Internet access to anyone within 300 feet, are popping up all over the world.
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Still, 9 out of 10 Android users here almost never go online except at a hot spot.
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I can't get this hot spot to work.
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So now that you have your new tablet, how do you find out who offers free WiFi hot spots?
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(Chicago) have announced that they are considering plans to turn their entire areas into Wi-Fi hot spots, while several smaller cities are already under "city clouds."
Academic text (2004) -
If your phone bill has become especially crushing, consider eliminating your data plan altogether and only using the internet when you have access to wireless hot spots.
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When it comes to Wi-Fi, security is still a concern, although those who properly configure their hot spots or secure their mobile computers can mitigate the risks.
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Next year, Venetians hope to complete the laying of nearly 50 miles of fiber-optic cable, resulting in 600 Wi-Fi hot spots for free Internet access.
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You can connect your laptop to a hot spot to access the internet while at the park.
Synonyms
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A way to connect devices to the internet or a local network without wires
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A public place or device that gives wireless internet access
How Accessible
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 image of a small hot spot where the internet signal is strong, like a warm zone you can connect to, so it means 'a place or device that provides Wi‑Fi'.