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Hot Pink (album)

Hot Pink is Doja Cat's second studio album, released November 7, 2019. The 12-track record features Gucci Mane, Smino, and Tyga, and "Say So" became a global hit.

Hot plate (laboratory)

A laboratory hot plate is a flat, electrically heated surface for heating flat-bottomed vessels like beakers and flasks, often built with a magnetic stirrer into one unit.

Hot plate test

The hot plate test is a behavioral pharmacology assay measuring how quickly a mouse or rat responds to a heated surface, used mainly to screen analgesic drugs.

Hot Pockets

Hot Pockets is an American frozen microwaveable stuffed-sandwich brand created by Paul and David Merage's Chef America, launched in 1983 and sold to Nestlé in 2002 for $2.6 billion.

Hot pot

Hot pot (火锅, old name 古董羹) is the Chinese communal cooking method of simmering raw ingredients in a shared pot of broth and eating them as they cook. Term first recorded in Tang-era Tongdian; regional styles include Chongqing numbing-spicy and Beijing clear-broth hot pot.

Hot Potato

Hot Potato (뜨거운 감자) is a South Korean rock duo formed in 1997 by Kim C and Go Bum Joon, whose 2010 single Confession topped Korean digital charts.

Hot pressing

Hot pressing is a powder metallurgy method that applies heat and uniaxial pressure simultaneously in a die, densifying powder into a solid component in one operation.

Hot Pursuit (2015 film)

Hot Pursuit (2015 film) is a 2015 American action comedy directed by Anne Fletcher. It stars Reese Witherspoon and Sofía Vergara as a policewoman and a drug boss's widow.

Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs

Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs is Billboard's weekly R&B/hip-hop songs chart, begun as the Harlem Hit Parade in 1942 and compiled today from Luminate streaming, airplay, and sales; Drake holds the record with 30 number-ones.

Hot Rap Songs

Hot Rap Songs, formerly Hot Rap Singles and Hot Rap Tracks, is Billboard's weekly US rap chart, launched March 11, 1989 with "Self Destruction" at No. 1; now compiled from Luminate streaming, Mediabase airplay, and sales data.

Hot Rats

Hot Rats is Frank Zappa's second solo album, released October 10, 1969 on Bizarre/Reprise: six tracks, five instrumentals plus Willie the Pimp with Captain Beefheart, recorded on the first prototype 16-track machine at T.T.G. Studios, a jazz-rock fusion landmark.

Hot rod

A hot rod, sometimes called a street rod, is an automobile stripped down and modified to go faster and handle better, classically a pre-World War II American car.

Hot Rod (2007 film)

Hot Rod is a 2007 American comedy film directed by Akiva Schaffer, starring Andy Samberg as a stuntman who stages a jump over 15 buses.

Hot Rod Lincoln

"Hot Rod Lincoln" is a rockabilly talking-blues song written and first recorded by Charlie Ryan in the mid-1950s, narrating a highway race between a Model A with a Lincoln V-12 and a Cadillac.

Hot rolling

Hot rolling is a metalworking process in which metal, most commonly steel, is rolled above its recrystallization temperature so it deforms plastically without strain-hardening, typically the first forming step after casting.

Hot Sale (shopping event)

Hot Sale is an annual online discount shopping event in Latin America, launched in Mexico in 2014 by AMVO and held mainly in late May and early June.

Hot sauce

Hot sauce, a chili-pepper condiment also called chilli sauce or piquante sauce, combines Capsicum peppers with vinegar, salt, and spices; measured in Scoville heat units via HPLC, kept safe below pH 4.6, and anchored by traditions from Aztec Mexico to Tabasco (1868) and sriracha.

Hot Sauce Committee Part Two

Hot Sauce Committee Part Two is the eighth and final Beastie Boys studio album, released May 3, 2011 on Capitol Records; planned as part of a two-part project delayed by Adam Yauch's cancer, it became the band's final record.

Hot Shots!

Hot Shots! is a 1991 American parody war film directed by Jim Abrahams and starring Charlie Sheen, Valeria Golino, and Lloyd Bridges, spoofing Top Gun.

Hot Shots! Part Deux

Hot Shots! Part Deux is a 1993 American parody comedy directed by Jim Abrahams, spoofing the Rambo films with Charlie Sheen as pilot Topper Harley on a rescue mission into Iraq.

Hot Since 82

Hot Since 82 is Daley Padley, a British deep/tech house DJ and producer from Barnsley. Debut single "Let It Ride" (2011), Knee Deep In Sound label (2014), albums Little Black Book, Recovery, and Obsessions (2026).

Hot Snow

Hot Snow (Горячий снег) is a 1970 war novel by Soviet writer Yuri Bondarev about an artillery battery stopping German tanks near Stalingrad in December 1942.

Hot Space

Hot Space is Queen's tenth studio album, released 21 May 1982, recorded in Montreux and Munich with producer Reinhold Mack. A disco-funk departure featuring "Under Pressure" with David Bowie, it reached No.4 in the UK and divided fans.

Hot Spot (2024 film)

Hot Spot (Hotspot) is a 2024 Tamil anthology film directed by Vignesh Karthick, released 29 March 2024 with an A certificate, streaming from 17 May 2024 on Aha and Prime Video; sequel Hot Spot 2 Much followed in 2026.

Hot Spot (2026 film)

Hot Spot (2026) is a sci-fi thriller by Agnieszka Smoczyńska, written by Robert Bolesto, starring Andrzej Konopka, Noomi Rapace, and Reika Kirishima; a detective probes a murder under a sentient AI called the Head. Focus Features released it August 21, 2026.

Hot Spot 2 Much

Hot Spot 2 Much (ஹாட்ஸ்பாட் 2 மச்) is a 2026 Tamil anthology comedy-drama directed by Vignesh Karthick, a sequel to Hot Spot (2024), starring Priya Bhavani Shankar, released 23 January 2026, certified UA 16+, streaming from 20 February 2026.

Hot spot analysis

Hot spot analysis is a spatial statistics method that identifies statistically significant clusters of high or low values in geographic data, most commonly with the Getis-Ord Gi statistic.

Hot spot in photovoltaic modules

A hot spot in a photovoltaic module is localized excessive heating that forms when shading or a cell defect forces a solar cell into reverse bias, damaging the module.

Hot spring

Hot spring: a spring discharging groundwater heated by hot rock, often volcanic. Also called onsen (温泉) in Japan. Key facts: Yellowstone's 10,000+ thermal features, 1948 onsen law, 1832 Hot Springs Reservation, hydrotherapy evidence.

Hot springs as microbial habitats

Hot springs are geothermal features, including geysers and mud pots, that sustain thermophilic archaea and bacteria; no known bacteria grow above 95 °C and no eukaryotes above about 65 °C.