The phrase "a type of spread" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when categorizing or describing a specific kind of spread, such as a food item or a financial term.
Example: "Hummus is a type of spread that is popular in Mediterranean cuisine."
Alternatives: "a kind of spread" or "a variety of spread".
After misjudging the distance to an oxer, a type of spread fence, he wound up in a six-way tie for third place; he and his two-time Olympic mount, Sapphire, knocked down the final rail during the jump-off.
The wave-sequence approach is a type of spread that focuses on spreading improved care delivery to other parts of the system.
Describing it as a "type of spread that focuses on spreading improved care delivery to other parts of the system" can be used to describe other spread approaches as well.
SSFs are a type of spread-F that can be identified when there is strong diffusion on the frequency and height axis of an ionogram.
Thus, the widespread belief that graded control in social insects is most probably a type of spreading of risk was premature.
"For many years we had primarily focused on the complex antennae of mosquitoes for our search for human-skin odor receptors, and ignored the simpler maxillary palp organs". To test the function of cpA, researchers shut down the activity of this olfactory neuron in a type of dengue-spreading mosquito called Aedes aegypti.
Mumps is caused by the mumps virus, a type of paramyxovirus that spreads from person to person through coughs, sneezes and saliva, as well as through contact with contaminated items and surfaces (used tissues, shared drinking glasses, dirty hands that touched a runny nose).
An exchange-traded fund (ETF) is a type of fund that spreads its ownership over a variety of assets such as shares of stock, corporate bonds, petroleum futures, gold ingots or foreign currency.
Five rebels were shot dead by the villagers.The number of deaths from SARS, a type of pneumonia that has spread from China, rose to more than 50 worldwide.
There were tissues, lube, rubber gloves, and a type of disposable blanket to spread over the couch.
In the 1950s and 1960s, the German nationalist movement, represented by the Freedom Party and its affiliated organisations, was very active in universities, where the Burschenschaften, a type of student fraternity, helped spread German nationalist and liberal views.
