Bot

For bot operation on Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Bots.

Bot or BOT, shortened from "robot" may refer to:

Computing

• A "software robot" or virtual agent
• Web crawler or Web spider, a computer program that does automated tasks
• Internet bot, a computer program that does automated tasks
• Zombie computer, a computer that is part of a botnet
• Chatterbot or Chat bot, a computer program that converses in natural language
• 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

Other uses

• Base of tongue, in medicine
• Bot, Tarragona, a municipality of the comarca of Terra Alta (Catalonia)
• Bót or estover, a legal compensation, profit or use
• Bots (band), a Dutch-language folk rock group
• Robot, mechanical device that can perform physical tasks
• Air Botswana's ICAO code
• The lesion caused by a botfly larva
• Boto people, a community also known as Boto that is found in Jammu and Kashmir
• Build–operate–transfer, a kind of business contract
• Bot, an upcoming film by Carolco Pictures

Acronyms

• British Overseas Territories
• Balance of trade
• Bank of Taiwan
• Bank of Tanzania
• Bank of Thailand
• Build-Operate-Transfer, a form of project financing
• Buoni Ordinari del Tesoro, Italian treasury bills
• 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

People with the surname

• Ajaw B'ot, king of Seibal
• Ben Bot, Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs
• Lucian Bot, Romanian boxer
• René Bot, Dutch footballer
• Yves Bot, Advocate-General at the European Court of Justice
• Bot, Team Umizoomi's green robot character

See also

• Bott (disambiguation)
• Bots (disambiguation)