What does the "return" statment do?

[TexanMonkey]

I dont know return statment does.

I was looking in classes(I) section of the tutorial and I noticed

return (x*y);.

I was just wondering what return does?

[3hM2Nwbp]

I've always found it bad practice to use a term while explaining it, but nonetheless, it returns the program flow to the calling function. It may also return a value to the calling function.

[TexanMonkey]

Thanks