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any small area, like the spots on a deer, the famous spots praised by the surfers, or the area illuminated by a spotlight
an advertisement (i.e. a "radio spot" or "TV spot" )
another word for a pimple
a common name for pets, most typically dogs:
- Spot Fetcher, George W. Bush's dog.
- Spot the dog, an animated series of children's books.
- Not Spot but Socks Bill Clinton's cat.
in fiction:
- Spot (Star Trek) -- the pet cat of Data in Star Trek: The Next Generation.
- Spot, the pet dragon of The Munsters TV Sitcom.
- The name of the dog of the 'Dick and Jane' readers, popular in the late 1950's and early 1960's.
- Spot, a Spider-Man villain.
in music:
- the guitarist for the rock group the Swirling Eddies.
- SPOT, a Danish music festival in Århus.
- the album by the synthpop band And One.

short for spot price of commodities.
In the financial markets, if you are spot trading or trading spot you are buying/selling for immediate delivery rather than for future delivery; for example, see foreign exchange spot trading.

the Great red spot on Jupiter, a very large and persistent storm.
SPOT (Satellite Pour l'Observation de la Terre), a series of French, commercial earth observation satellites