Yield

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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), the rate of return the holder earns 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
  • 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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