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walking skeletons

walking skeletons is the plural of walking skeleton.

Meaning of walking skeleton

Noun

walking skeleton (plural walking skeletons)

  1. An emaciated person.
    • The Soviet troops who liberated Auschwitz were shocked by the condition of the walking skeletons who greeted them.
  2. An initial, bare-bones implementation of a system or application which provides only the basic core functionality, in order to be able to demonstrate a minimal working product to be further fleshed out later.
    • Instead, think about how little you can do to create a walking skeleton of the product, and add more features as the features have value. Suppose you have a product with a variety of reports: sales by geography, kind of product,[…]2017 October 18, Johanna Rothman, Create Your Successful Agile Project: Collaborate, Measure, Estimate, Deliver, Pragmatic Bookshelf, →ISBN

Questions about walking skeletons

What is walking skeletons the plural of?
Walking skeletons is the plural of walking skeleton.

Words near walking skeletons in the dictionary

  1. walking shorts
  2. walking sim
  3. walking simulator
  4. walking simulators
  5. walking skeleton
  6. walking skeletons
  7. walking skin cancer
  8. walking Spanish
  9. walking spleenwort
  10. walking stick
  11. walking sticks

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