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
  • Spreading (debate), 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