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), 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.