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
* Rolled throughput yield, a statistical tool in Six Sigma
* 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 revenue 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
* Specific yield, a ratio used to evaluate the groundwater production from an aquifer
* Terminal yield, in formal language theory is the sequence of leaves encountered in an ordered walk of a tree structure
* Wool Yield, refers to the amount of clean wool present in a greasy lot and is objectively measured.
* 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.
* Fission product yield

See also

* yielding