Spreading

Spread stands:

generally for the distance between two legs or arms whose points of origin are connected to one another, see angle

in heating technology for the temperature difference between the flow and return, see heating circuit
in vehicle technology for the angle of inclination of the steering axis of rotation , see steering #spreading

in a manual gearbox the ratio of the largest and smallest gear reduction, see vehicle gearbox # parameters and terms

in cryptology, the substitution by character strings of different lengths, see spreading (cryptology)

in communications engineering, the distribution of the signal over a wider frequency band, see frequency spreading

in control engineering for the area between the default values of controls, see control loop #Standard control loop

in plate tectonics for the divergence movement of oceanic lithospheric plates, see ocean floor spreading

in phonetics for the movement of the lips when articulating spread vowels, see spreading (phonetics)

in music with stringed instruments for a higher part of high and lower part of lower strings, see spreading (music)

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