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• blackspot

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black spot (複数形 black spots)

1. (phytopathology) A fungal disease among plants, particularly roses, that results in black spots on the leaves.
   • 2006, Mary Moody, Mary Moody's Roses, Allen & Unwin, →ISBN, page 20:

     In areas where black spot is only a problem after heavy rain or later in the season, restrict spraying to these times, or if yellowing or spotted foliage is detected.

2. (transport) A section of roadway that has been designated as being particularly accident-prone.

   Synonym: accident blackspot

   • 2019, Will Birch, Cruel To Be Kind: The Life and Music of Nick Lowe‎^[1], Hachette UK, →ISBN:

     Indian Queens is a hamlet just off the A30, a well-known traffic black spot, and Yellowknife was Margo Kidder's hometown in Canada.

3. (by extension) A dangerous place or area.
4. (telecommunications) A location with poor radio signal reception, e.g. for mobile phones.
   • 2013, Judith Cutler, Life Sentence‎^[2], Allison & Busby, →ISBN:

     What if—like so many rural parts of the county—this was a mobile black spot? That was easily tested. No, she had no problem dialling her own home number.

5. (fiction) A fictional judicial device among pirates, consisting of a black circle indicating condemnation.
   • 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, OCLC 702939134, part I (The Old Buccaneer), page 31:

     I went down on my knees at once. On the floor close to his hand there was a little round of paper, blackened on the one side. I could not doubt that this was the black spot; and taking it up, I found written on the other side, in a very good, clear hand, this short message: “You have till ten to-night.”