Spread may refer to:
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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
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