YieldYield may mean:
- In economics, yield is a measure of the amount of how much 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 is expressed as a percentage of the price of the investment. In the simple case of a consol, a bond's yield is its annual coupon payment (predetermined interest payments) divided by its current market price. Because the numerator is determined ahead of time, when the price of a bond rises, its yield drops -- and vice versa. The yield on bonds is often called its interest rate. All else equal, a bond with higher credit and interest rate risk pays a higher 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.
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