YIELD


'Yield' may mean:

Crop yield, a measure of the output per unit area of land under cultivation

Maximum sustainable yield, the largest long-term fishery catch that can be safely taken

Yield (finance), a rate of return based on what the holder earns with direct incomes on a financial instrument or security

Dividend yield, the current or yield to maturity of common or preferred share dividends

Yield (aviation), the profit an airline makes on each passenger for every kilometer/mile travelled

Yield (chemistry), the amount of product obtained in a chemical reaction

Yield (engineering), the permanent plastic deformation of a structure


Yield strength, an engineering term for the strain that a material can undergo before plastic deformation

★ in computer science, a point of return (and re-entry) of a coroutine

Yield (education), the percentage of prospective students offered admission to an educational institution that actually enroll at that school

Semiconductor fabrication yield, the proportion of devices produced which function correctly

Nuclear weapon yield, the amount of energy discharged when the weapon explodes

Terminal yield, in formal language theory is the sequence of leaves encountered in an ordered walk of a tree structure

Yield sign, a traffic sign controlling the give-way rules at an intersection (also called a give way sign)

★ an element in The Amazing Race, a U.S. reality game, where one team forces another to stop racing for a pre-determined amount of time.

''Yield'' (album), the fifth album from the band Pearl Jam

Yield Class, an expression of the productivity of a stand of timber.

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