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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
  • 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
  • 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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In agriculture, crop yield (also known as "agricultural output") is not only a measure of the yield of cereal per unit area of land under cultivation, it is also the seed generation of the plant itself, i.e. one grain of wheat produces a stalk yielding three grain, or 1:3.
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In population ecology, maximum sustainable yield or MSY is, theoretically, the largest yield/catch that can be taken from a species' stock over an indefinite period.
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Six Sigma is a set of practices originally developed by Motorola to systematically improve processes by eliminating defects.[1] A defect is defined as nonconformity of a product or service to its specifications.
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In finance, yield is a percentage that measures the cash returns to the owners of a security. Normally it does not include the price variations, at the difference of the total return.

The term is used in different situations to mean different things.
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The dividend yield on a company stock is the company's annual dividend payments divided by its market cap, or the dividend per share divided by the price per share. It is often expressed as a percentage.
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In chemistry, Yield, also referred to as chemical yield and reaction yield, is the amount of product obtained in a chemical reaction.[1] The absolute yield can be given as the weight in grams or in moles (molar yield).
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yield strength or yield point of a material is defined in engineering and materials science as the stress at which a material begins to plastically deform. Prior to the yield point the material will deform elastically and will return to its original shape when the applied
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yield strength or yield point of a material is defined in engineering and materials science as the stress at which a material begins to plastically deform. Prior to the yield point the material will deform elastically and will return to its original shape when the applied
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In computer science, coroutines are program components that generalize subroutines to allow multiple entry points and suspending and resuming of execution at certain locations.
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Semiconductor device fabrication is the process used to create chips, the integrated circuits that are present in everyday electrical and electronic devices. It is a multiple-step sequence of photographic and chemical processing steps during which electronic circuits are
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yield of a nuclear weapon is the amount of energy, called the yield, discharged when a nuclear weapon is detonated, expressed usually in the equivalent mass of trinitrotoluene (TNT), either in kilotons (thousands of tons of TNT) or megatons (millions of tons of TNT), but sometimes
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In road transport, a yield (Canada, Ireland, and the United States) or give way (United Kingdom and many Commonwealth countries) traffic sign indicates that a driver of a vehicle must slow down and prepare to stop if necessary (usually while merging into traffic on another
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Yield
(1998) Live on Two Legs
(1998)

Singles from Yield
# "Given to Fly"
Released: January 6, 1998# "Wishlist"
Released: May 5, 1998

Yield
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Pearl Jam is an American rock band that formed in Seattle, Washington in 1990. The band's original line-up consisted of Eddie Vedder (lead vocals), Jeff Ament (bass), Stone Gossard (rhythm guitar), Mike McCready (lead guitar), and Dave Krusen (drums).
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Yielding is a form of social etiquette, with one person allowing access to another person or persons.

In political elections, a losing candidate may yield to the other candidate. This process is known as concession. Preferably this is to be done after the votes are counted.
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