Spread may refer to:

Places

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 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 applicatio ...

- 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 c ...

, 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 or Cracker (food), 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 ch ...

, 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