English

Noun

burndown ‎(plural burndowns)

1. The use of a herbicide to destroy existing foliage.
   • 2012, Vincent M. Russo, Peppers: Botany, Production and Uses (page 193)

     Controlling weeds prior to direct seeding or transplanting peppers can involve the use of burndown or stale seedbed weed control systems […]

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.
   • 2012, Mark C. Layton, Agile Project Management For Dummies (page 85)

     Avoid creating separate status reports for management; these reports duplicate information in the sprint burndowns […]