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Hosts (file)
The hosts file, historically HOSTS.TXT, is a plain-text system file that maps hostnames to IP addresses and can override DNS answers. Malware often tampers with it.
Hosur (ஓசூர்)
Hosur (ஓசூர்) is an industrial city in Krishnagiri district, Tamil Nadu, about 40 km from Bengaluru, with ~3,000 MSMEs, NH-44 connectivity, SIPCOT estates, and firms such as TVS, Ashok Leyland, and Titan.
Hot (Le Sserafim EP)
HOT is the fifth mini album (EP) by K-pop girl group LE SSERAFIM, released March 14, 2025 by Source Music. Five tracks including title track HOT; final entry of the EASY-CRAZY-HOT trilogy; debuted at No. 9 on the Billboard 200.
Hot air balloon
A hot air balloon is a lighter-than-air aircraft lifted by heated air inside a fabric envelope, invented by the Montgolfier brothers in 1783 and modernized by Ed Yost in 1960.
Hot air ballooning
Hot air ballooning is the sport of flying an unsteered balloon lifted by heated air, begun by the Montgolfier brothers in France in 1783 and modernized by Ed Yost in 1960.
Hot air oven
A hot air oven, or dry heat sterilizer, is an electrically heated chamber that sterilizes glassware, metal instruments, powders, and oils by oxidation, requiring cycles of 60 to 150 minutes.
Hot and sour soup (酸辣汤)
Hot and sour soup (酸辣汤, suan la tang) is a Chinese thickened soup flavored with vinegar and white pepper, filled with tofu, wood ear, bamboo shoot, pork, and egg ribbons; a northern-origin dish also claimed by Sichuan cuisine, distinct from Henan hulatang, and high in sodium at about 917 mg per cup.
Hot Bench
Hot Bench is a syndicated American arbitration-based court show created by Judge Judy Sheindlin, premiering September 15, 2014. Its three-judge panel (originally DiMango, Acker, Bakman; now Juarez, Tewolde, Mentzer) hears real small-claims cases and rules by majority in binding arbitration.
Hot Bird
Hot Bird is a family of Eutelsat broadcasting satellites at 13 degrees East, relaying around 900 television channels to homes across Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East.
Hot Blooded (뜨거운 피)
Hot Blooded (뜨거운 피) is a 2022 South Korean crime drama, Cheon Myeong-kwan's directing debut, adapted from Kim Un-su's 2016 novel; Jung Woo stars as gangster Hee-su in 1993 Busan port town Kuam, released March 23, 2022, 119 minutes, 398,090 admissions.
Hot bottom burning
Hot bottom burning (HBB) is proton-capture nucleosynthesis at the base of the convective envelope of massive asymptotic giant branch stars, which modifies surface abundances of carbon, nitrogen, and lithium.
Hot Boys
The Hot Boys (Hot Boy$), New Orleans hip hop group of Juvenile, B.G., Lil Wayne, and Turk on Cash Money Records; 1997 debut Get It How U Live!, platinum 1999 album Guerrilla Warfare (No. 5 Billboard 200), 2003 breakup, full reunion November 2024 at Lil Weezyana Fest.
Hot Brown
Hot Brown (Kentucky Hot Brown, Louisville Hot Brown): open-faced hot sandwich invented 1926 by chef Fred K. Schmidt at Louisville's Brown Hotel; roast turkey, bacon, tomato, Texas toast, Mornay sauce, broiled; cousin of Welsh rarebit.
Hot Buttered Soul
Hot Buttered Soul is Isaac Hayes's 1969 second album on Stax's Enterprise label: four songs in 45 minutes, including 12-minute "Walk On By" and 18:42 "By the Time I Get to Phoenix," which hit No. 8 pop, No. 1 R&B, sold a million copies, and reshaped soul albums.
Hot carrier injection
Hot carrier injection (HCI), also called hot carrier degradation, is a reliability failure mechanism in MOSFETs in which energetic carriers inject into the gate oxide and permanently shift the threshold voltage.
Hot cell
A hot cell is a heavily shielded enclosure in which highly radioactive materials are handled remotely, protecting operators from radiation and contamination through manipulators and viewing windows.
Hot Chelle Rae
Hot Chelle Rae is a Nashville pop rock band formed in 2005, also once called Miracle Drug, known for the triple-platinum 2011 hit "Tonight Tonight" (No. 7 Hot 100) and albums Lovesick Electric and Whatever.
Hot chicken
Hot chicken is Nashville's signature fried chicken coated after frying with cayenne spice paste, served on white bread with pickles; created by the Prince family around 1945 at Prince's Hot Chicken Shack and now a Tennessee state food.
Hot Chip
Hot Chip are a British electronic pop band formed in London in 2000 by Alexis Taylor and Joe Goddard, known for The Warning, Mercury and Grammy nominations, and blending synths with live instruments.
Hot chocolate
Hot chocolate, also called hot cocoa or drinking chocolate, is a hot beverage of chocolate or cocoa powder with milk or water and sugar, descended from Mesoamerican cacao drinks such as Aztec xocolatl, brought to Europe by the Spanish in the 16th century.
Hot Club de France
Hot Club de France: French nonprofit jazz association founded in Paris in 1932 (also called HCF), promoter of authentic hot jazz, publisher of Jazz Hot and Bulletin du HCF, founder of the Swing label, and namesake of Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli's Quintette.
Hot corrosion
Hot corrosion is accelerated corrosion of hot-section alloys, especially in gas turbine engines, caused by molten salt deposits such as sodium sulfate that damage protective surface oxides.
Hot Country Songs
Hot Country Songs, formerly Hot Country Singles and Tracks, is Billboard's weekly chart of the most popular country singles in the United States, published since 1944.
Hot cracking
Hot cracking is the formation of intergranular cracks in a metal during solidification or at elevated temperatures, when liquid films along grain boundaries cannot withstand strain; it appears in welding, casting, and additive manufacturing.
Hot cross bun
Hot cross bun: a sweet spiced yeast bun with currants or raisins and a cross on top, eaten at Easter and Good Friday. First printed as "hot cross buns" in 1733; origins contested between pagan, Greek, and monastic traditions.
Hot dark matter
Hot dark matter is dark matter made of light, fast-moving particles, the standard example being neutrinos; its free streaming erases small density fluctuations, favoring large structures forming first.
Hot desert climate
The hot desert climate, Köppen code BWh, is an arid climate with mean annual temperature at or above 18 °C, covering roughly 16% of global land area.
Hot disk method
The hot disk method, formally the transient plane source (TPS) method, measures a material's thermal conductivity, diffusivity, and volumetric heat capacity in one measurement using a heated disk sensor.
Hot dog
Hot dog: a cooked frankfurter or wiener sausage served in a split bun, an American dish from German immigrant street food. Known for Coney Island vendors, 19 US regional styles, $11 billion annual US supermarket sales, and IARC Group 1 processed-meat classification.
Hot dog cart
Hot dog cart: a small pushcart or tow-behind mobile food unit limited to reheating pre-cooked hot dogs, descended from 1870s Coney Island pushcarts; launches for $6,000-$9,000, nets $100-$300 daily, and matches restaurants on inspection scores.