hot spot 的定义
- a country or region where dangerous or difficult political situations exist or may erupt, especially where a war, revolution, or a belligerent attitude toward other countries exists or may develop: In the 1960s, Vietnam became a hot spot.
- Informal. any area or place of known danger, intrigue, dissension, or instability.
- Informal. a nightclub.
- Photography. an area of a negative or print revealing excessive light on that part of the subject.
- a section of forest or woods where fires frequently occur.
- an area hotter than the surrounding surface, as on the shell of a furnace.
- Digital Technology. a place where users of portable computers or mobile devices can get wireless broadband access to the internet or another network: how to find free Wi-Fi hot spots.
- Physics. an area of abnormally high radioactivity.
- Geology. a region of molten rock below and within the lithosphere that persists long enough to leave a record of uplift and volcanic activity at the earth's surface.Compare plume.
- Genetics. a chromosome site or a section of DNA having a high frequency of mutation or recombination.
- Veterinary Pathology. a moist, raw sore on the skin of a dog or cat caused by constant licking of an irritation from an allergic reaction, tangled coat, fleas, etc.
hot spot 近义词
predicament
更多hot spot例句
- Crowded apartments became hot spots as people came and left for work and those who fell sick struggled to find space to isolate.
- Especially in Los Angeles, a hot spot for the coronavirus, any effort to throw up barriers to vaccination threatens to undermine the pandemic response, said Diana Shiba, president of the Los Angeles County Medical Association.
- Physicians in Italy, another early hot spot, wondered whether diabetes diagnoses might follow, given the long-observed association between viral infections and the onset of diabetes.
- Another idea, from Shan Soe-Lin and Robert Hecht at Yale, is to focus on coronavirus hot spots.
- Gloria said he also wants to expand web access at more city recreation centers and ramp up opportunities for residents to check out computers and wi-fi hot spots from city libraries.
- Gay marriage was the hot-button fight on the left and right.
- Everybody is trapped in an elevator together and tempers run a little hot.
- Even the hot Jewish women I mentioned above did something a bit more “intellectual” than pageantry: acting.
- There was deep brown flesh, and bronze flesh, and pallid white flesh, and flesh turned red from the hot sun.
- Many Jewish women have been accepted as conventional, mainstream hot.
- Suddenly, however, he became aware of a small black spot far ahead in the very middle of the unencumbered track.
- In the drawing-room things went on much as they always do in country drawing-rooms in the hot weather.
- “You appear to feel it so,” rejoined Mr. Pickwick, smiling at the clerk, who was literally red-hot.
- There was a lathe near the spot where David Arden stood, and shavings and splinters under his feet.
- Nearly half the regiment ran to secure their picketed horses, armed themselves in hot haste, and galloped to the gaol.