Yield

Yield may mean:

In economics, yield is a measure of the amount of income an investment generates over time (related to return on investment). For example, farmers talk of the yield per unit area of land.
In finance, the yield on a security is the return for the year divide by value of the security.
- In the case of a bond, yield is its current yield.
- In the case of a stock, yield is its dividend yield.
In chemical synthesis, yield is the amount of product produced out of compounds that are known as reagents or reactants.
Yield is a condition in steel and other metals under tensile stress where it becomes plastic, deformation is large, and will ultimately break. See tensile strength.
In semiconductor device fabrication, yield is the ratio of functionally working devices and the total number of devices produced.
The explosive yield of a nuclear weapon is expressed in the equivalent mass of trinitrotoluene (TNT).
In fisheries science, yield refers to amount of catch. See maximum sustainable yield and optimum sustainable yield.
Yield is the name of a Pearl Jam album.

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