Spread

Spread may refer to:

Places

• Spread, West Virginia

Arts, entertainment, and media

• Spread (film), a 2009 film.
• $pread, a quarterly magazine by and for sex workers
• "Spread", a song by OutKast from their 2003 album Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
• Spreadability, a concept in media studies
• Page spread, an aspect of book design

Finance

• Spread, the difference in price between related securities, as in:
  • Bid–offer spread, between the buying and selling price of a commodity and/or security
  • Credit spread (bond), on bonds
  • Option-adjusted spread, on mortgage backed securities where the borrower has the right to repay in full
  • Options spread, building blocks of option trading strategies.
  • Spread trade, between two related securities or commodities
    • Spread option, payoff is based on the difference in price between two underlying assets
  • Yield spread, difference in percentage rate of return of two instruments
  • Z-spread, on mortgage backed securities

Gambling and sports

• Spread limit, a limit on a raise in poker
• The score difference being wagered on in spread betting
• Spread offense, an offensive scheme in American football designed to stretch the field horizontally

Mathematics

• Spread (intuitionism), a concept in intuitionistic mathematics
• Spread (rational trigonometry), the measure of line inclination in rational trigonometry
• Spread (projective geometry), a partition of a geometry into subspaces
• Spread polynomials, a polynomial sequence arising in rational trigonometry
• Spread (topology), a cardinal function defined on topological spaces, also known as the hereditary cellularity
• Statistical dispersion

Science and technology

• Seafloor spreading, the process leading to continental drift
• Spread spectrum, communications signals over a range of frequencies
• Spread Toolkit - an open source toolkit that provides a high performance messaging service
• Spreading dynamics, the wetting of a surface, see Wetting#Spreading dynamics
• Spreadsheet, computer application software
• Temperature-Dewpoint spread, dew point depression

Other uses

• Spread (food), an edible paste put on other foods.
• Spread or bedspread, a bed covering for protective or decorative use
• Spread, the laying of Tarot cards for divinatory uses
• Spread, a term used for speed reading in policy debate
• Spread, real estate property or land
• Spread (prison food), term for a prison meal made by inmates

See also

• All pages with titles containing Spread