Default and Yield

Default

Default verb - Fail to pay up.

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Yield and default are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Yield" instead a verb "Default".

Nearby Words: defaulter, defaulting, defaulted

Yield verb - To give up and cease resistance (as to a liking, temptation, or habit).

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Default and yield are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Default" instead a verb "Yield".

Nearby Words: yielding, yielded

The lowest investment-grade (below which anything is "high yield" or "junk") is BBB-, and anything below AAA and above default can have a +/- modifier.

Source: Four Point Scale
Plasma Torpedoes launchers only fire one torpedo at High Yield (it gets modified into a slower, destructible, but much more damaging torpedo instead), but the Romulan Hyper-Plasma Torpedo fires three High Yield torpedoes as the default mode.

Source: Video Game / Star Trek Online
No real nuke has ever been built that would be rated in gigatons,note yet...it has however been thought that if we ever start to harness anti-matter in quantity, and...forbid, use it as a weapon, this could easily become a default method of gauging AM yield.

Source: Useful Notes / Nuclear Glossary

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