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burndown

burndown noun: the use of a herbicide to destroy existing foliage.

Noun

burndown (plural burndowns)

  1. The use of a herbicide to destroy existing foliage.
    • Controlling weeds prior to direct seeding or transplanting peppers can involve the use of burndown or stale seedbed weed control systems[…]2012, Vincent M. Russo, Peppers: Botany, Production and Uses, page 193
  2. A kind of destructive fault in electrical equipment.
    • arcing fault burndowns
  3. In agile software development, a chart showing how much work remains to be completed.
    • Avoid creating separate status reports for management; these reports duplicate information in the sprint burndowns[…]2012, Mark C. Layton, Agile Project Management For Dummies, page 85

Forms of burndown

pluralburndowns

Origin of burndown

Deverbal from burn down. In the software-development sense, perhaps suggesting a burning fuse.

Questions about burndown

What does burndown mean?
Burndown means the use of a herbicide to destroy existing foliage.
What part of speech is burndown?
Burndown is a noun.
What is the plural of burndown?
The plural of burndown is burndowns.

Words near burndown in the dictionary

  1. Burnbank
  2. burnbeat
  3. burnbeating
  4. Burnby
  5. Burnden
  6. burndown
  7. burndowns
  8. Burndred
  9. burne
  10. burned
  11. burned a hole in someone's pocket

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