Term: (A word or expression you have seen in writing)
Notspot
Your definition or explanation:
A play on words from "hotspot", like a "WiFi hotspot" but the opposite, to show something doesn't exist in that particular spot (i.e. no coverage for a mobile phone etc).
Example: (An example of the term in use)
Three million UK homes are web Notspots (taken from here)
One or more places you have seen the term: (Please give URLs/links to web pages, or a full description of a print publication.)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14291335
http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/05/27/us-britain-internet-idUSTRE54Q1CK20090527
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/02/02/cbn_notspot/
http://www.bluenowhere.net/?page_id=468
http://forums.thinkbroadband.com/notspot/3861206-four-rural-notspots-to-go-online.html
http://www.gn.apc.org/network/news/uk-broadband-notspots-revealed
http://www.electricpig.co.uk/2010/1...ts-create-for-playstation-move-and-hannspree/
http://blog.simplifydigital.co.uk/2011/02/time-to-convert-notspots-into-hotspots/
http://oro.open.ac.uk/24595/
http://www.djisystems.co.uk/content/bt-offers-fill-broadband-notspots-if-government-pays
http://www.publicservice.co.uk/news_story.asp?id=14591
Etc etc....
Have you looked for this term or meaning in dictionaries, and not found it? Yes
Notspot
Your definition or explanation:
A play on words from "hotspot", like a "WiFi hotspot" but the opposite, to show something doesn't exist in that particular spot (i.e. no coverage for a mobile phone etc).
Example: (An example of the term in use)
Three million UK homes are web Notspots (taken from here)
One or more places you have seen the term: (Please give URLs/links to web pages, or a full description of a print publication.)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14291335
http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/05/27/us-britain-internet-idUSTRE54Q1CK20090527
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/02/02/cbn_notspot/
http://www.bluenowhere.net/?page_id=468
http://forums.thinkbroadband.com/notspot/3861206-four-rural-notspots-to-go-online.html
http://www.gn.apc.org/network/news/uk-broadband-notspots-revealed
http://www.electricpig.co.uk/2010/1...ts-create-for-playstation-move-and-hannspree/
http://blog.simplifydigital.co.uk/2011/02/time-to-convert-notspots-into-hotspots/
http://oro.open.ac.uk/24595/
http://www.djisystems.co.uk/content/bt-offers-fill-broadband-notspots-if-government-pays
http://www.publicservice.co.uk/news_story.asp?id=14591
Etc etc....
Have you looked for this term or meaning in dictionaries, and not found it? Yes