ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Burndown

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Burndown is a noun meaning The use of a herbicide to destroy existing foliage.

Meaning

The use of a herbicide to destroy existing foliage.

More Meanings

  1. A kind of destructive fault in electrical equipment.
  2. (software engineering) In agile software development, a chart showing how much work remains to be completed.

Example Sentences

arcing fault burndowns
Avoid creating separate status reports for management; these reports duplicate information in the sprint burndowns[…]
Controlling weeds prior to direct seeding or transplanting peppers can involve the use of burndown or stale seedbed weed control systems[…]

Word Forms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include underburn, weedkilling, burnoff, debushing, verbicide, specicide.

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