Spread may refer to:

Places

Spread, West Virginia Spread is an unincorporated community in Clay County, West Virginia West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian, Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States.The Census Bureau and the Association of American Geographers c ...

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 ''Speakerboxxx/The Love Below'' is the fifth studio album by American hip hop duo Outkast. It was released on September 23, 2003, by Arista Records. Issued as a double album, its length of over two hours is spread across solo albums from both o ...

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Spreadability In media studies and marketing, spreadability is the wide distribution and circulation of information on media platforms. Spreadability contrasts with the "stickiness" of aggregating media in centralized places. The original copy of the (textual, v ...

, 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) Credit spread may refer to: *Credit spread (option) In finance, a credit spread, or net credit spread is an options strategy that involves a purchase of one option and a sale of another option in the same class and expiration but different str ...

, on bonds **

Option-adjusted spread Option-adjusted spread (OAS) is the yield spread which has to be added to a benchmark yield curve to discount a security's payments to match its market price, using a dynamic pricing model that accounts for embedded options. OAS is hence model-de ...

, on mortgage backed securities where the borrower has the right to repay in full **

Options spread Options spreads are the basic building blocks of many options trading strategies. A spread position is entered by buying and selling options of the same class on the same underlying security but with different strike prices or expiration dates. A ...

, building blocks of option trading strategies. **

Spread trade In finance, a spread trade (also known as relative value trade) is the simultaneous purchase of one security and sale of a related security, called legs, as a unit. Spread trades are usually executed with options or futures contracts as the legs, b ...

, between two related securities or commodities ***

Spread option In finance, a spread option is a type of option where the payoff is based on the difference in price between two underlying assets. For example, the two assets could be crude oil and heating oil; trading such an option might be of interest to oi ...

, payoff is based on the difference in price between two underlying assets **

Yield spread Yield may refer to: Measures of output/function Computer science * Yield (multithreading) is an action that occurs in a computer program during multithreading * See generator (computer programming) Physics/chemistry * Yield (chemistry), the a ...

, difference in percentage rate of return of two instruments **

Z-spread The Z-spread, ZSPRD, zero-volatility spread or yield curve spread of a bond is the parallel shift or spread over the zero-coupon Treasury yield curve required for discounting a pre-determined cash flow schedule to arrive at its present market pr ...

, on mortgage backed securities

Gambling and sports

Spread limit In the game of poker, the play largely centers on the act of betting, and as such, a protocol has been developed to speed up play, lessen confusion, and increase security while playing. Different games are played using different types of bets, a ...

, a limit on a raise in poker * The score difference being wagered on in

spread betting Spread betting is any of various types of wagering on the outcome of an event where the pay-off is based on the accuracy of the wager, rather than a simple "win or lose" outcome, such as fixed-odds (or money-line) betting or parimutuel betting. ...

Spread offense :''"Spread offense" may also refer to the four corners offense in basketball.'' The spread offense is an offensive scheme in gridiron football that typically places the quarterback in the shotgun formation, and "spreads" the defense horizontall ...

, an offensive scheme in American football designed to stretch the field horizontally

Mathematics

Spread (intuitionism) In intuitionistic mathematics, a ''species'' is a collection (similar to a classical set in that a species is determined by its members). A spread is a particular kind of species of infinite sequences defined via finite decidable properties. I ...

, a concept in intuitionistic mathematics * Spread (rational trigonometry), the measure of line inclination in rational trigonometry * Spread polynomials, a polynomial sequence arising in rational trigonometry *

Statistical dispersion In statistics, dispersion (also called variability, scatter, or spread) is the extent to which a distribution is stretched or squeezed. Common examples of measures of statistical dispersion are the variance, standard deviation, and interquartile ...

Science and technology

Seafloor spreading Seafloor spreading or Seafloor spread is a process that occurs at mid-ocean ridges, where new oceanic crust is formed through volcanic activity and then gradually moves away from the ridge. History of study Earlier theories by Alfred Wegener an ...

, the process leading to continental drift *

Spread spectrum In telecommunication and radio communication, spread-spectrum techniques are methods by which a signal (e.g., an electrical, electromagnetic, or acoustic signal) generated with a particular bandwidth is deliberately spread in the frequency doma ...

, communications signals over a range of frequencies *

Spread Toolkit The Spread Toolkit is a computer software package that provides a high performance group communication system that is resilient to faults across local and wide area networks. Spread functions as a unified message bus for distributed applications ...

- an open source toolkit that provides a high performance messaging service * Spreading dynamics, the wetting of a surface, see Wetting#Spreading dynamics *

Spreadsheet A spreadsheet is a computer application for computation, organization, analysis and storage of data in tabular form. Spreadsheets were developed as computerized analogs of paper accounting worksheets. The program operates on data entered in ce ...

, computer application software * Temperature-Dewpoint spread,

dew point depression The dew point depression (T-Td) is the difference between the temperature and dew point temperature at a certain height in the atmosphere. For a constant temperature, the smaller the difference, the more moisture there is, and the higher the rela ...

Other uses

Spread (food) A spread is a food that is spread, generally with a knife, onto foods such as bread and crackers. Spreads are added to food to enhance the flavor or texture of the food, which may be considered bland without it. Butter and soft cheeses are ty ...

, an edible paste put on other foods. * Spread or

bedspread Bedding, also known as bedclothes or bed linen, is the materials laid above the mattress of a bed for hygiene, warmth, protection of the mattress, and decorative effect. Bedding is the removable and washable portion of a human sleeping environm ...

, a bed covering for protective or decorative use * Spread, the laying of

Tarot The tarot (, first known as '' trionfi'' and later as ''tarocchi'' or ''tarocks'') is a pack of playing cards, used from at least the mid-15th century in various parts of Europe to play card games such as Tarocchini. From their Italian roots ...

cards for divinatory uses * Spread, a term used for speed reading in

policy debate Policy debate is an American form of debate competition in which teams of two usually advocate for and against a resolution that typically calls for policy change by the United States federal government. It is also referred to as cross-examinat ...

* Spread,

real estate Real estate is property consisting of land and the buildings on it, along with its natural resources such as crops, minerals or water; immovable property of this nature; an interest vested in this (also) an item of real property, (more genera ...

property or land * Spread (prison food), term for a prison meal made by inmates