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