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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
- 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
Little Yield, in Yield Plus: Investors Sue
New York, NY: You wonder when it's all going to end. No, not the credit crisis or stock market losses, but the securities fraud that comes with promising more than you can deliver—and specifically, attempting to mitigate the risk in an effort to secure the investment and ink the deal...
Failure to Yield
While technology is often promoted as the key to increased production, a recent report highlights the risk in relying upon genetic modification as the technological enhancement that will solve global food needs...
Crimes Yield to DNA Samples
Michigan's Governor, Jennifer Granholm, signed a law this week requiring anyone arrested of certain crimes to provide DNA samples; the law covers arrests for murder, criminal sexual conduct, kidnapping, robbery and other crimes...
Ten Year Note Yield Getting Away From Fed
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While a steeper yield curve is good for the financial sector and those other folks who borrow short and lend longer term, it does no good if those higher rates choke off growth in the real economy that is that overlooked detail in the Bankers' grand plans...
Low-Budget, High-Yield Legal Aid in Xi?an
Congressman From Hollywood to Yield His Chair
Ars Technica has reported that a chain reaction resulting from the death of Congressman Tom Lantos may mark a significant improvement in the line-up of chairmanships influential on Info/Law issues...
















