bot

noun (1)

\ ˈbät

variants: or less commonly bott

Definition of bot

(Entry 1 of 3)

: the larva of a botfly especially : one infesting the horse

bot

abbreviation

Definition of bot (Entry 2 of 3)

1 botanical; botanist; botany

2 bottle

3 bottom

4 bought

bot

noun (2)

Definition of bot (Entry 3 of 3)

1 : robot Bennett's referring to … a new police robot. It looks similar to the Albuquerque Bomb Squad robot next to it—both have cameras, an articulated arm, a mechanical gripper, and tank-like treads. But Benett's bot is different; it has brains. — Popular Science

2a : a computer program that performs automatic repetitive tasks : agent sense 5 Several shopping "bots" will track down prices for on-line merchandise from a variety of vendors.— Sam Vincent Meddis especially : one designed to perform a malicious action These bot programs churn away all day and night, prodding at millions of random IP addresses looking for holes to crawl through. — Jennifer Tanaka

b : a computer that has been infected with a bot and can be used for malicious purposes as part of a network of infected computers These proxies then sent instructions to worker bots in set patterns, including templates for spam creation.— Jeff Hecht

3 : a computer program or character (as in a game) designed to mimic the actions of a person