yield
IPA: jˈiɫd
noun
- (obsolete) Payment; tribute.
- A product; the quantity of something produced.
- The explosive energy value of a bomb, especially a nuke, usually expressed in tons of TNT equivalent.
- (law) The current return as a percentage of the price of a stock or bond.
- (finance) Profit earned from an investment; return on investment.
verb
- to give
- (obsolete) To pay, give in payment; repay, recompense; reward; requite.
- To furnish; to afford; to render; to give forth.
- To give, or give forth, (anything).
- To give up; to surrender or capitulate.
- To give as demanded; to relinquish.
- To give way; to allow another to pass first.
- (intransitive) To give way; to succumb to a force.
- (engineering, materials science, of a material specimen) To pass the material's yield point and undergo plastic deformation.
- (rare) To admit to be true; to concede; to allow.
- to produce
- To produce as return, as from an investment.
- (mathematics) To produce as a result.
- (linguistics) To produce a particular sound as the result of a sound law.
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