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technical debts

technical debts is the plural of technical debt.

Meaning of technical debt

Noun

technical debt (countable and uncountable, plural technical debts)

  1. The implied cost of additional future work caused by choosing an easy but inferior solution originally.
    • An important attribute of technical debt is that it grows in an unpredictable, nonlinear fashion. Each bit of technical debt, when added to the pool of existing technical debt, might do significantly more harm than the size of that new debt might imply.2012, Kenneth S. Rubin, Essential Scrum, Addison-Wesley, →ISBN, page 142
    Synonyms:
    design debt, code debt

Questions about technical debts

What is technical debts the plural of?
Technical debts is the plural of technical debt.

Words near technical debts in the dictionary

  1. technical climbing
  2. technical college
  3. technical colleges
  4. technical cybernetics
  5. technical debt
  6. technical debts
  7. technical difficulties
  8. technical difficulty
  9. technical diving
  10. technical drawing
  11. technical drawings

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