Bot

Look up BOT, bot, 'bot, or -bot in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Bot may refer to:

Computing

• Computing Machinery and Intelligence, a seminal paper written by Alan Turing on the topic of artificial intelligence
• A "software robot device" or software agent
  • Especially an intelligent agent
• Web crawler or Web spider, a computer program that does automated tasks
• Internet bot, a computer program that does automated tasks
• Chatterbot or Chat bot, a computer program that converses in natural language
• Social bots, a particular type of chatterbot that is employed in social media networks to automatically generate messages
  • Twitterbot, a program used to produce automated posts on the Twitter microblogging service
• Zombie computer, a computer that is part of a botnet
• 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
• Video game bot, a computer-controlled player or opponent
• BOTS, a computer game
• Bot, a line of budget desktop PCs manufactured by Alienware
• Bot Colony, an episodic adventure game by Montreal developer North Side Inc.
• Bot Soccer, a soccer simulation computer game, released in 1996

People

• Bot (surname), Dutch and French surname
• Bot caste, a Hindu caste of Nepali origin found in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India
• Bot or Boto people, a community in Jammu and Kashmir
• Ajaw B'ot, 8th century Maya king of the city of Seibal

Other uses

• Base of tongue, in medicine
• The lesion caused by a botfly, larva
• Bot or estover, a legal compensation, profit or use
• Bot, short for ubosot, the ordination hall of a Buddhist temple in Thailand.
• Bot, Tarragona, a municipality of the comarca of Terra Alta (Catalonia)
• Bot River, a river in the Western Cape province of South Africa
• Bots (band), a Dutch-language folk rock group
• Robot, mechanical device that can perform physical tasks
• Air Botswana', s ICAO code

Acronyms

• British Overseas Territories, territories under the jurisdiction and sovereignty of the United Kingdom
• Balance of trade, the difference between the monetary value of a nation's exports and imports over a certain period
• 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
• Build-Operate-Transfer, a form of project financing
• The IOC and FIFA trigram for Botswana (ISO 3166: BWA)
• The Bank of Tokyo, a defunct Japanese bank now part of The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ
• Bni Ounjel Tafraout
• Bucharest Old Town
• Barn Owl Trust, a charity located at Waterleat, Ashburton, Devon, England
• "Big Ol' Truck", a 1995 song written and recorded by American country music artist Toby Keith
• Blue Orange Theatre, an independent theatre located in the Jewellery Quarter in the centre of Birmingham, England
• Bobby Orr Trophy, the championship trophy of the Eastern Conference of the Ontario Hockey League
• Bolt On Technology, an American business-to-business Limited Liability Company headquartered in Downingtown, Pennsylvania
• Bon Om Touk, the Cambodian Water Festival, a Cambodian festival celebrated in November and marks a reversal of the flow of the Tonle Sap River
• Break On Through (disambiguation)
• Burr Oak Township (disambiguation)
• Brava Opening Tournament, an opening tournament competition played during the season in the island of Brava, Cape Verde
• Bryn Oer Tramway, a narrow gauge railway built in South Wales in 1814

See also

• Bott (disambiguation)
• Bots (disambiguation)
• Robot (disambiguation)