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Meaning of burndown | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. The use of a herbicide to destroy existing foliage.
  2. A kind of destructive fault in electrical equipment.
  3. In agile software development, a chart showing how much work remains to be completed.

Examples

“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[…]”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

Burndred Burne Burned burned-over district Burnell Burner

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