Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

burndown

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.04 in modern English

Syllables: burn-down
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The use of a herbicide to destroy existing foliage.

noun

A kind of destructive fault in electrical equipment.

noun

In agile software development, a chart showing how much work remains to be completed.

Example Sentences

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

Etymology

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

Inflected Forms

burndowns (plural)

Questions

What does burndown mean?: The use of a herbicide to destroy existing foliage.
Where does burndown come from?: Deverbal from burn down. In the software-development sense, perhaps suggesting a burning fuse.

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