Yield

Yield may refer to:

Measures of output/function

Computer science

• Yield (multithreading) is an action that occurs in a computer program during multithreading
• See generator (computer programming)

Physics/chemistry

• Yield (chemistry), the amount of product obtained in a chemical reaction
  • The arrow symbol in a chemical equation
• Yield (engineering), yield strength of a material as defined in engineering and material science
• Fission product yield
• Nuclear weapon yield

Earth science

• Crop yield, measurement of the amount of a crop harvested, or animal products such as wool, meat or milk produced, per unit area of land
  • Yield (wine), the amount of grapes or wine that is produced per unit surface of vineyard
• Ecological yield, the harvestable population growth of an ecosystem, most commonly measured in forestry and fishery
• Specific yield, a measure of aquifer capacity
• Yield (hydrology), the volume of water escaping from a spring

Production/manufacturing

• Yield (casting)
• Throughput yield, a manufacturing evaluation method
• A measure of functioning devices in semiconductor testing, see Semiconductor device fabrication § Device yield
• The number of servings provided by a recipe

Finance

• Yield (finance), a rate of return for a security
• Dividend yield and earnings yield, measures of dividends paid on stock

Other uses

• Yield (college admissions), a statistic describing what percent of applicants choose to enroll
• Yield (album), by Pearl Jam
• Yield sign, a traffic sign
• The Yield, a 2019 novel by Tara June Winch
• In cooking, yield is how many servings a recipe creates.
• Yield, a feature of a coroutine in computer programming.
• Yield, an element of the TV series The Amazing Race