burndown
nounEtymology Deverbal from burn down. In the software-development sense, perhaps suggesting a burning fuse.
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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:
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A kind of destructive fault in electrical equipment.
- arcing fault burndowns
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences, Software 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: