Spread may refer to:

Places

Arts, entertainment, and media

* ''Spread'' (film), a 2009 film. * ''

$pread ''$pread'' was a quarterly magazine by and for sex workers and those who support their rights. The magazine's focus was: "personal experiences and political insights" and it "contain(ed) practical information like news, features, health columns, ...

'', 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 ...

'' * Spreadability, a concept in media studies *

Page spread Book design is the art of incorporating the content, style, format, design, and sequence of the various components and elements of a book into a coherent unit. In the words of renowned typographer Jan Tschichold (1902–1974), book design, "though ...

, 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 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, 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 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 interquartil ...

Science and technology

* Seafloor spreading, 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 dom ...

, 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 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

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 typi ...

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