YIELD

Yield

A yield strength or yield point of a material is defined in engineering and materials science as the stress at which a material begins to deform plastically. Prior to the yield point the material will deform elastically and will return to its original shape when the applied stress is removed. Once the yield point is passed, some fraction of the deformation will be permanent and non-reversible.

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yield

Noun

  1. Payment; tribute.
  2. A product; the quantity of something produced.
  3. The current return as a percentage of the price of a stock or bond.

Verb

  1. To pay, give in payment; repay, recompense; reward; requite.
    God 'ild 1 you! ― Shakespeare.
    The good mother holds me still a child! Good mother is bad mother unto me! A worse were better; yet no worse would I. Heaven yield her for it! ― Gareth and Lynette, Tennyson.
  2. To furnish; to afford; to render; to give forth.
  3. To give way; to allow another to pass first.
    Yield the right of way to pedestrians.
  4. To give as required; to surrender, relinquish or capitulate.
    They refuse to yield to the enemy.
  5. To give way; to succumb to a force.
  6. To produce as return, as from an investment.
    Historically, that security yields a high return.
  7. To produce as a result.
    Adding 3 and 4 yields a result of 7.
  8. To pass the material's yield point and undergo plastic deformation.
  9. To admit to be true; to concede; to allow.


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