All 5 Uses of
yield
in
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
- Mike's "head" works faster; he answered, "The concussion of a hundred-tonne mass on Terra approaches the yield of a two-kilotonne atomic bomb."
Chpt 8 (definition 1) *yield = production
- A two-kilotonne yield is equivalent to exploding two million kilograms of trinitrotoluol …. and a kilo of TNT is quite an explosion— Ask any drillman.†
Chpt 8 (definition 1)
- While a hundred-megatonne bomb is rated as having fifty thousand times the yield of a two-kilotonne bomb, its destructive effect is only about thirteen hundred times as great as that of a two-kilotonne explosion.
Chpt 8 (definition 1)yield = production
- Turned out to be Wolfgang Korsakov, Member from Tycho Under (and a member of Prof's cell and our number-one finagler of LuNoHoCo) and he not only had floor, he had it all day, yielding time as he saw fit (i. e., picking out whom he wanted to speak rather than letting just anyone talk).†
Chpt 21 (definition 1)
- During evening session Prof reported on trip and then yielded to me—Committee Chairman Korsakov consenting—so that I could report what "five-year plan" meant and how Authority had tried to bribe me.
Chpt 21 (definition 2) *yielded = gave in, gave way, or gave up
Definitions:
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(1) (yield as in: will yield valuable data) to produce (usually something wanted); or the thing or amount produced
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(2) (yield as in: yield to pressure) to give in, give way, or give up