burndown

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noun

The use of a herbicide to destroy existing foliage.

“arcing fault burndowns”

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Meanings

nounburndown (plural burndowns)

plural burndowns

  1. 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
  2. A kind of destructive fault in electrical equipment.

    arcing fault burndowns

  3. computingIn 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

Origin

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

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Chicago

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