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Spot de Damencourt
Spot de Damencourt, also called Le Spot, is Guadeloupe's best-known surf break, a powerful reef break at Le Moule on Grande-Terre's Atlantic coast that hosts national and international competitions.
Spot de Surf Cantinho da Bahia
Spot de Surf Cantinho da Bahia, a sand-bottom A-frame beach break on Ilha do Baleal, Peniche, Portugal, inside the Peniche/Santa Cruz marine protected area; year-round NW-swell surf, beginner to advanced, 2-8 ft waves.
Spot de Surf do Molhe Leste
Molhe Leste (Spot de Surf do Molhe Leste) is a surf spot beside the eastern breakwater of Peniche's fishing harbour, Portugal, just north of Supertubos: a right-hand beach break, sheltered from north wind, small-day beginner to big-day advanced barrels.
Spot de Surf Supertubos
Supertubos (Praia de Medão), Peniche, Portugal: powerful hollow sandbar beach break nicknamed the European Pipeline; WSL Championship Tour venue since 2009, advanced surfers only, best in autumn.
Spot de Surf: Baie Maxime
Spot de Surf: Baie Maxime, a sheltered A-frame beach break south of Mahambo, Madagascar, used by the Summer Session surf school; best January to March, E swell, W offshore wind, 4x4 access.
Spot rate
The spot rate is the market price quoted now for near-term settlement, most precisely in foreign exchange and as the yield on a zero-coupon bond in fixed income.
Spot scanning proton therapy
Spot scanning proton therapy is a radiation technique in which a magnetically steered proton pencil beam deposits individually weighted spots, building a 3D dose layer by layer.
Spot Surf
Spot Surf: name shared by independent surf businesses, chiefly Spot Surf School (Doniños, Ferrol, Spain, founded 2008, FES-certified), plus a Zumaia shop-school, a Taghazout camp, a Samara wakesurf club, and a Portuguese beach break.
Spot test (lichen)
Lichen spot test: field chemical identification method applying K (10% KOH), C (bleach), KC, or PD reagents to a thallus and reading color changes; originated with William Nylander's 1865-1866 papers; TLC confirms doubtful results.
Spot Trading LLC
Spot Trading LLC was a Chicago proprietary trading firm and equity options market maker founded by Rob Merrilees in 1999 and shut down in 2018.
Spot welding
Spot welding, or resistance spot welding, joins overlapping metal sheets by passing high current between water-cooled copper electrodes, melting a small nugget that forms the joint.
Spot-bellied eagle-owl
Spot-bellied eagle-owl (Bubo nipalensis, Ketupa nipalensis), also called forest eagle-owl: a large 51–63 cm Asian forest owl from the Himalayas to Southeast Asia, taking jackals to peafowl, one-egg clutches, IUCN Least Concern but Endangered in Nepal.
Spot1
Spot1 (Spot 1) names a surf school and beach bar at Le Gorette, Cecina Mare, Tuscany, founded 1994; also a Brampton music hall and catering firm, a Turek vehicle station, a Lagos apartment, a DARPA robot, and the SPOT 1 satellite.
Spotawheel
Spotawheel is a Greek online used-car retail and subscription platform founded in Athens in 2016, selling inspected cars with a five-year warranty in Greece, Poland, and Romania.
SpotBugs
SpotBugs, the successor of FindBugs, is a free, open-source tool that finds bugs in Java programs by scanning compiled bytecode for more than 400 bug patterns.
SpotDraft
SpotDraft is an India-founded legaltech company that sells an AI-powered contract lifecycle management platform to in-house legal teams, founded in 2017 and headquartered in Bengaluru with a major New York office.
Spotify
Spotify, also known as Spotify AB, is a Swedish audio streaming service founded in Stockholm in 2006, offering music, podcasts, and audiobooks through free and paid Premium tiers.
Spotify India
Spotify India is the Indian operation of the Swedish music-streaming platform Spotify, launched in February 2019 and turned profitable in FY25 with Rs 5.14 billion (Rs 514 crore) in revenue.
Spotify Wrapped
Spotify Wrapped is an annual year-in-review campaign from Spotify, launched in December 2015 as "Year in Music," that repackages each user's listening data into personalized, shareable stories.
Spotlight (Apple)
Spotlight is Apple's system-wide search technology for macOS and iOS, indexing file contents and metadata; announced in 2004, it shipped with Mac OS X Tiger in April 2005.
Spotlight (film)
Spotlight (2015), directed by Tom McCarthy and written with Josh Singer, dramatizes the Boston Globe Spotlight team's 2002 exposure of Catholic Church abuse cover-up; it won Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay Oscars.
SpotPass and StreetPass
SpotPass and StreetPass were two communication features of the Nintendo 3DS, introduced in 2010: StreetPass exchanged game data between nearby systems, and SpotPass downloaded content from Nintendo over the internet.
Spotswood L. Spruance
Spotswood L. Spruance is an American infectious-disease physician and epidemiologist, emeritus at the University of Utah, known for defining the natural history of recurrent herpes simplex infections.
Spotsylvania County
Spotsylvania County, Virginia: county formed 1720/1721 from Essex, King William, and King and Queen counties, named for Alexander Spotswood; seat Spotsylvania; 140,032 residents (2020), Civil War battlefields, $112,738 median household income.
Spotted dick
Spotted dick, also known as spotted Richard or railway cake, is a British steamed suet pudding studded with currants or raisins and served hot with custard.
Spotted eagle ray
Spotted eagle ray (Aetobatus ocellatus), formerly part of the A. narinari complex, is a large Indo-West Pacific eagle ray to 330 cm DW, Vulnerable/Endangered from fishing and habitat loss, with 1-4 pups per litter and 12-month gestation.
Spotted grass frog
Spotted grass frog (Limnodynastes tasmaniensis), also called spotted marsh frog, an Australian ground frog up to 5 cm with dark back blotches, foamy egg masses, three call races, and introduced populations in WA and NT.
Spotted hyena
Spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta), laughing hyena: largest living hyena, matriarchal clans up to ~90, kills ~70% of its own prey, 27,000–47,000 individuals, IUCN Least Concern but decreasing.
Spotted jelly
Spotted jelly is a shared common name for several jellyfish: Phyllorhiza punctata (Australian spotted jellyfish), Mastigias papua (lagoon/golden jelly), and Desmonema gaudichaudi; distinguished by native range, symbiotic algae, and invasive blooms.
Spotted lanternfly
Spotted lanternfly (Lycorma delicatula), an invasive planthopper from China, first detected in Berks County, Pennsylvania in 2014; phloem-feeding pest of grapevines now in 19 US states and DC, managed by quarantines, insecticides, and kill-on-sight reporting.