Spread

Spread may refer to:

Places

 * Spread, West Virginia

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