Spread may refer to:

Places

Arts, entertainment, and media

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

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'', a quarterly magazine by and for sex workers * "Spread", a song by OutKast from their 2003 album '' Speakerboxxx/The Love Below'' *

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, ...

, 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, building blocks of option trading strategies. ** Spread trade, 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 o ...

, 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 :''"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), a concept in intuitionistic mathematics * Spread (rational trigonometry), the measure of line inclination in rational trigonometry *

Spread polynomials ''Divine Proportions: Rational Trigonometry to Universal Geometry'' is a 2005 book by the mathematician Norman J. Wildberger on a proposed alternative approach to Euclidean geometry and trigonometry, called rational trigonometry. The book advocat ...

, a polynomial sequence arising in rational trigonometry * 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 * 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 property or land * Spread (prison food), term for a prison meal made by inmates