"Hot Point" is not a standard English phrase.
It is possible to use it informally, but it could be confused with the mechanical tool Hotpoint. Example: We had a hot point during the staff meeting when everyone was heatedly debating the new policy.
Student voting had been a hot point of contention eight years ago.
If a copper wire carrying a steady electric current is subjected to external heating at a short section while the rest remains cooler, heat is absorbed from the copper as the conventional current approaches the hot point, and heat is transferred to the copper just beyond the hot point.
What is more, determining exactly who to help will be a "hot point" as various government regulators and the attorneys general try to reach a settlement with the banks, according to Roy Cooper, the attorney general for North Carolina.
The technology works by using the mirrors as giant lenses that focus the sun's energy to a tiny hot point, which in turn drives a zero-emission Stirling engine.
The chief is still such a hot point of contention that the university's student newspaper, The Daily Illini, would not discuss the homecoming issue and does not plan to publish an editorial position on the rule reversal.
It was during the writing of the book, the brothers say, that they had a brainstorm for a theory of the so-called initial singularity, the infinitely dense, infinitely hot point into which all space and time were squeezed when the universe began, where normal physics breaks down.
"It was very personal, the hot points of this generation -- drugs, Vietnam -- and the survival of this generation".
They are called time machines, and if they are slid across the map to geographical hot points, they offer a wildly varying historical selection of videos and narratives.
He offered to set up another appearance and, according to Hicks, shouldered the blame for not having spent more time beforehand editing out the "hot points".
Indicating stage directions and his recollection of significant audience response, Hicks set out some of the "hot points" to which the network took exception.
There's a pleasingly acidic edge to some of the fish-out-of-water antics that ensue, but the film treads conservatively around any hot points of political or cultural interest.
