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  • Statistical dispersion
    Statistical dispersion
    In statistics, statistical dispersion is variability or spread in a variable or a probability distribution...

  • Spread (food)
    Spread (food)
    A spread is a food that is spread with a knife onto bread, crackers, or other bread products. Spreads are added to bread products to provide flavor and texture, and are an integral part of the dish, i.e., they should be distinguished from condiments, which are optional additions...

    , an edible paste put on other foods
  • the score difference being wagered on in spread betting
    Spread betting
    Spread betting is any of various types of wagering on the outcome of an event, where the pay-off is based on the accuracy of the wager, rather than a simple "win or lose" outcome, such as fixed-odds betting or parimutuel betting. A spread is a range of outcomes, and the bet is whether the outcome...

  • the measure of line inclination in rational trigonometry
  • Temperature-Dewpoint spread, dew point depression
    Dew point depression
    The dew point depression is the difference between the temperature and dew point temperature at a certain height in the atmosphere....

  • Two-page spread
    Two-page spread
    In page layout and typography, a spread is the unit formed by two adjacent, facing pages in a magazine or other publication, featuring a single image or a themed group of images...

     a redundant term, also simply called "spread", referring to two adjacent, facing pages in a magazine or other publication with conjoined or connected content
  • In finance, the difference in price between related securities,
    • Bid/offer spread, between the buying and selling price of a commodity or security
    • Spread trade
      Spread trade
      In finance, a spread trade refers to the act of buying one security or futures contract and selling another related one, in an attempt to profit from the widening or narrowing change in the price difference of the two....

      , between two related securities or commodities
    • Option-adjusted spread, on mortgage backed securities where the borrower has the right to repay in full
    • Yield spread
      Yield spread
      In finance, the yield spread is the difference between the quoted rates of return on two different investments, usually of different credit quality.It is a compound of yield and spread....

      , difference in percentage rate of return of two instruments
    • Yield curve spread
      Yield curve spread
      Yield curve spread on a simple mortgage-backed security is the flat spread over the treasury yield curve required in discounting a pre-determined coupon schedule to arrive at its present market price....

      , on mortgage backed securities
    • Credit spread (bond)
      Credit spread (bond)
      In finance, a credit spread is the yield spread, or difference in yield between different securities, due to different credit quality. The credit spread reflects the additional net yield an investor can earn from a security with more credit risk relative to one with less credit risk...

      , on bonds
  • a term used for speed reading in policy debate
    Policy debate
    Policy debate is a form of research-based speech competition in which teams of two advocate for and against a resolution that typically calls for policy change by the United States Federal Government...

    .
  • The laying of Tarot
    Tarot
    The tarot , , is a pack of cards , used from the mid fifteenth century in various parts of Europe to play card games such as Italian Tarocchini and French Tarot. The tarot has four suits corresponding to the suits of conventional playing cards...

     cards for divinatory uses
  • Spread (film)
    Spread (film)
    Spread is a 2009 sex comedy film starring Ashton Kutcher and Anne Heche as the title character and directed by David Mackenzie. The film was released under the name L.A. Gigolo in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden, as Toy Boy in France and American Playboy in Spain...

    , a 2009 film


See also:
  • Seafloor spreading
    Seafloor spreading
    Seafloor spreading occurs at mid-ocean ridges, where new oceanic crust is formed through volcanic activity and then gradually moves away from the ridge. Seafloor spreading helps explain continental drift in the theory of plate tectonics....

    , the process leading to continental drift
  • Spread spectrum
    Spread spectrum
    Spread-spectrum techniques are methods by which electromagnetic energy generated in a particular bandwidth is deliberately spread in the frequency domain, resulting in a signal with a wider bandwidth...

    , communications signals over a range of frequencies
  • Spread trader, holding positions in related securities, to trade the difference in price
  • Spread offense, an offensive scheme in American Football designed to stretch the field horizontally
  • Spread limit, a limit on a raise in poker
  • Spread polynomials
    Spread polynomials
    In the conventional language of trigonometry, the nth-degree spread polynomial Sn, for n = 0, 1, 2, ..., may be characterized by the trigonometric identity...

    , a polynomial sequence arising in rational trigonometry
  • $pread, 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
    Speakerboxxx/The Love Below is a double album by American hip hop duo OutKast, released September 23, 2003 on LaFace Records. Clocking at over two hours and a quarter, it includes a solo album from both of the group's members...

  • Spread Toolkit
    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 applications, and provides highly tuned application-level...

    - an open source toolkit that provides a high performance messaging service