What is the meaning of Yield?

To give.

  1. To pay, give in payment; repay, recompense; reward; requite.
  2. To furnish; to afford; to render; to give forth.
  3. To give, or give forth, (anything).

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.

  1. To give as demanded; to relinquish.

    To give as demanded; to relinquish.

    To give way; to allow another to pass first.

    To give way; to succumb to a force.

    To pass the material's yield point and undergo plastic deformation.

    To admit to be true; to concede; to allow.

    To produce.

    1. To produce as return, as from an investment.

      To produce as return, as from an investment.

      To produce as a result.

      To produce a particular sound as the result of a sound law.

      Payment; tribute.

      A product; the quantity of something produced.

      1. measurement of the amount of a crop harvested, or animal products such as wool, meat or milk produced, per unit area of land.

        measurement of the amount of a crop harvested, or animal products such as wool, meat or milk produced, per unit area of land.

        the harvestable population growth of an ecosystem.

        the amount of product obtained in a chemical reaction.

        yield strength of a material.

        the volume of water escaping from a spring.

        The situation where a thread relinquishes the processor to allow other threads to execute.

        The explosive energy value of a bomb, especially a nuke, usually expressed in tons of TNT equivalent.

        The current return as a percentage of the price of a stock or bond.

        Profit earned from an investment; return on investment.

        yield (the current return as a percentage of the price of a stock or bond)

        Source: wiktionary.org