yield

To give as a result or outcome; to produce or render.

"This method generally yields better results."

To produce as return from an investment.

"Historically, that security yields a high return."

To produce as a result.

"Adding 3 and 4 yields a result of 7."

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

"Indo-European p- yields Germanic f-."

To give in payment; repay, recompense; reward; requite.

To give up; to surrender or capitulate. To give as demanded; to relinquish.

"They refuse to yield to the enemy."

To give as demanded; to relinquish.

"They refuse to yield to the enemy."

To give way so as to allow another to pass first.

"Yield the right of way to pedestrians."

To give way under force; to succumb to a force.

"I put my shoulder into the door, but it did not yield."

Of a running thread or process: to give control back to the parent program or operating system so that other threads or processes can be allowed to run.

"The system froze because the buggy program got into an infinite loop and didn't yield."

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

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

A product.

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

"Zucchini plants always seem to produce a high yield of fruit."

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

"Zucchini plants always seem to produce a high yield of fruit."

The harvestable population growth of an ecosystem.

The amount of product obtained in a chemical reaction.

The volume of water escaping from a spring.

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

Profit earned from an investment; return on investment.

(Can we verify this sense?) The current return as a percentage of the price of a stock or bond.

yield strength of a material.

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

Payment; money; tribute.