# Yield

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**Yield** may refer to:

## Measures of output/function

### Computer science

- [Yield (multithreading)](/source/Yield_(multithreading)) is an action that occurs in a computer program during multithreading
- See [generator (computer programming)](/source/Generator_(computer_programming))

### Physics/chemistry

- [Yield (chemistry)](/source/Yield_(chemistry)), the amount of product obtained in a chemical reaction - The arrow symbol in a [chemical equation](/source/Chemical_equation)
- [Yield (engineering)](/source/Yield_(engineering)), yield strength of a material as defined in engineering and material science
- [Fission product yield](/source/Fission_product_yield)
- [Nuclear weapon yield](/source/Nuclear_weapon_yield)

### Earth science

- [Crop yield](/source/Crop_yield), measurement of the amount of a [crop](/source/Crop) harvested, or [animal products](/source/Animal_product) such as [wool](/source/Wool), [meat](/source/Meat) or [milk](/source/Milk) produced, per unit area of land - [Yield (wine)](/source/Yield_(wine)), the amount of [grapes](/source/Grape) or [wine](/source/Wine) that is produced per unit surface of [vineyard](/source/Vineyard)
- [Ecological yield](/source/Ecological_yield), the harvestable [population growth](/source/Population_growth) of an [ecosystem](/source/Ecosystem), most commonly measured in [forestry](/source/Forestry) and [fishery](/source/Fishery)
- [Specific yield](/source/Specific_yield), a measure of [aquifer](/source/Aquifer) capacity
- [Yield (hydrology)](/source/Yield_(hydrology)), the volume of water escaping from a spring

### Production/manufacturing

- [Yield (casting)](/source/Yield_(casting))
- [Throughput yield](/source/Throughput_yield), a manufacturing evaluation method
- A measure of functioning devices in semiconductor testing, see [Semiconductor device fabrication#Device yield](/source/Semiconductor_device_fabrication#Device_yield)
- The number of servings provided by a [recipe](/source/Recipe)

### Finance

- [Yield (finance)](/source/Yield_(finance)), a rate of return for a security
- [Dividend yield](/source/Dividend_yield) and [earnings yield](/source/Earnings_yield), measures of dividends paid on stock

## Other uses

- [Yield (college admissions)](/source/Yield_(college_admissions)), a statistic describing what percent of applicants choose to enroll
- [*Yield* (album)](/source/Yield_(album)), by Pearl Jam
- [Yield sign](/source/Yield_sign), a traffic sign
- *[The Yield](/source/The_Yield)*, a 2019 novel by Tara June Winch
- In [cooking](/source/Cooking), *yield* is how many servings a recipe creates.
- Yield, a feature of a [coroutine](/source/Coroutine) in computer programming.
- Yield, an element of the TV series *[The Amazing Race](/source/The_Amazing_Race#Yield)*

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