Bot

Bot or 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
  • Spambot, an internet bot designed to assist in the sending of spam
• Internet Relay Chat bot, a set of scripts or an independent program that connects to IRC as a client
• 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
• Video game bot, a computer-controlled player or opponent
• Wikipedia bot, an internet bot which performs tasks in Wikipedia
• Zombie computer, part of a botnet

Biology and medicine

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

Places

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

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
• Jeanne Bot, French supercentenarian
• Theo Bot, Dutch politician

Brands and enterprises

• 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, an independent theatre in Birmingham, England
• Bolt On Technology, an American software development company
• The Bank of Tokyo, a defunct Japanese bank now part of The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ
• Bot, a line of budget desktop PCs manufactured by Alienware

Business

• Balance of trade, difference between the monetary value of exports and imports
• Build–operate–transfer, a form of project financing

Sports

• Bobby Orr Trophy, the championship trophy of the Eastern Conference of the Ontario Hockey League
• Brava Opening Tournament, a football tournament in Brava, Cape Verde

Transportation

• Air Botswana (ICAO: BOT)
• Bosset Airport (IATA: BOT), in Bosset, Papua New Guinea
• Bryn Oer Tramway, a narrow gauge railway built in South Wales in 1814

Other uses

• "B.O.T.", a 1986 episode of The Transformers
• 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
• Bot, short for ubosot, the ordination hall of a Buddhist temple in Thailand
• Barn Owl Trust, a charity in Waterleat, Ashburton, Devon, England
• Bon Om Touk, the Cambodian Water Festival

See also

• All pages with titles containing Bot
• Bots (disambiguation)
• Bott (disambiguation)
• Break On Through (disambiguation)
• Burr Oak Township (disambiguation)
• Robot (disambiguation)