Meaning

3 senses
  1. The use of a herbicide to destroy existing foliage.

  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.

Origin

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

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

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Forms

plural: burndowns
Singularburndown
Pluralburndowns

regular

See also

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