Bot

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Bot or BOT or similar may refer to:

In people:

• Bernard Bot, Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs

In places:

• Bot, Spain, municipality of the comarca of Terra Alta

In computers:

• Alienware Bot, line of budget desktop PCs manufactured by Alienware
• Bots (edi), open source EDI software
• BOTS, computer game
• Chatterbot, computer program designed to simulate an intelligent conversation with a human
• Desktop Bot, software that resides on a computer and indexes content for the purpose of searching, tagging, or distribution
• Internet bot, computer program which does automated tasks
  • Botnet, network of "zombie" computers used to carry out automated tasks such as spamming
  • Botsourcing, assignment of tasks to an automated, or intelligent, programmed agent
  • Computer game bot, computer controlled player or opponent
  • IRC bot, computer program connected to an Internet Relay Chat server as a normal user

In acronyms:

• Air Botswana (ICAO code)
• Balance of Trade
• Bank of Tanzania, Tanzania's central bank
• Bank of Thailand, Thailand's central bank
• Bird of Time, R/C glider originally designed by Dave Thornburg and now sold as an ARF by Dynaflite
• Bloch oscillating transistor
• Body on tap
• BOT (holding), BOT Holding Bełchatów-Opole-Turów Górnictwo i Energetyka S.A.
• BOT GKS Bełchatów, Polish football club
• BOT Skra Bełchatów, Polish volleyball club
• British Overseas Territory
• Build-Operate-Transfer contracts
• Buoni ordinari del tesoro, a type of Italian government bond

In other uses:

• bot, blunt, insensitive; Dutch
• bot, colloquial term, typically used in the UK, short for "bottom", i.e., bum, ass etc.
• Boten Anna, hit song in Sweden in the middle of 2006 about an IRC bot
• The larva of the botfly
• Bots (band), Dutch language folk rock group
• Robot, mechanical device that can perform physical tasks