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
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
- Buildâ€"operateâ€"transfer, a kind of business contract
- Bot River, a river in the Western Cape province of South Africa
- Bot caste, a Hindu caste found in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India
- Bot caste, a Hindu caste found in Country Nepal. This Cast is Unique in the world.
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
People with the surname
- Ajaw B'ot, king of Seibal
- Ben Bot (born 1937), Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Lucian Bot (born 1979), Romanian boxer
- René Bot (born 1978), Dutch footballer
- Yves Bot (born 1947), Advocate-General at the European Court of Justice
See also
- Bott (disambiguation)
- Bots (disambiguation)
- Robot (disambiguation)