Bot

Bot may refer to:

Sciences

Computing and technology

• Chatbot, a computer program that converses in natural language
• Internet bot, a software application that runs automated tasks (scripts) over the Internet
  • a Spambot, an internet bot designed to assist in the sending of spam.
• Internet Relay Chat bot, a computer program connected to an Internet Relay Chat server as a user, but providing special services or performing special functions
• Robot, or "bot", a mechanical device that can perform physical tasks
• Social bot, a type of chatbot that is employed in social media networks to automatically generate messages
  • Twitter bot, a program used to produce automated posts on the Twitter microblogging service
• Trading bot, a computer program that is linked to exchanges and programmed to trade following pre-defined algorithms; see also Bitconnect
• Video game bot, a computer-controlled player or opponent
• Wikipedia bot, an internet bot which perform tasks in Wikipedia
• Zombie (computer science), a zombie computer is part of a botnet

Biology and medicine

• BOT, base of tongue, in medicine
• Bot, the lesion caused by a botfly larva
• Borderline ovarian tumor, tumor of the ovaries with low malignant potential

Places

• Bot, Tarragona, a town in Spain
• Bni Ounjel Tafraout, or BOT, a commune in the Taounate Province of the Taza-Al Hoceima-Taounate administrative region of Morocco
• Bot River, South Africa
• Botswana, IOC and FIFA trigram BOT (ISO 3166: BWA)
• British Overseas Territories, or BOT, territories under the jurisdiction and sovereignty of the United Kingdom
• Bucharest Old Town, or BOT

People

• Ajaw B'ot, 8th century Maya king of the city of Seibal
• Ben Bot, Dutch politician
• G. W. Bot, Australian printmaker, sculptor, painter and graphic artist
• Theo Bot, Dutch politician
• Bot caste, a Hindu caste of Nepali origin found in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh
• Bot people, or Boto people, a community in Jammu and Kashmir

Arts, entertainment, and media

Games

• Bot Colony, an episodic adventure game by Montreal developer North Side Inc.
• Bot Soccer, a soccer simulation computer game, released in 1996

Music

• "Big Ol' Truck", or "BOT", a 1995 song written and recorded by American country music artist Toby Keith

Brands and enterprises

• Bot, a line of budget desktop PCs manufactured by Alienware
• Bank of Taiwan, a bank headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan
• Bank of Tanzania, the central bank of the United Republic of Tanzania
• Bank of Thailand, the central bank of Thailand
• Blue Orange Theatre, or BOT, an independent theatre located in the Jewellery Quarter in the centre of Birmingham, England
• Bolt On Technology, or BOT, an American business-to-business Limited Liability Company headquartered in Downingtown, Pennsylvania
• The Bank of Tokyo, or BOT, a defunct Japanese bank now part of The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ

Business

• Balance of trade, or BOT, the difference between the monetary value of a nation's exports and imports over a certain period
• Build–operate–transfer, or BOT, a form of project financing

Sports

• Bobby Orr Trophy, or BOT, the championship trophy of the Eastern Conference of the Ontario Hockey League
• Brava Opening Tournament, or BOT, an opening tournament competition played during the season in the island of Brava, Cape Verde

Transportation

• Air Botswana, ICAO code BOT
• Bryn Oer Tramway, or BOT, a narrow gauge railway built in South Wales in 1814

Other uses

• Bot, short for ubosot, the ordination hall of a Buddhist temple in Thailand
• Barn Owl Trust, or BOT, a charity located at Waterleat, Ashburton, Devon, England
• Bon Om Touk, or BOT, the Cambodian Water Festival, a Cambodian festival celebrated in November and marks a reversal of the flow of the Tonle Sap River

See also

• Bots (disambiguation)
• Bott (disambiguation)
• Break On Through (disambiguation)
• Burr Oak Township (disambiguation)
• Robot (disambiguation)