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| Domain | Definition |
Aerospace | 1. An act or instance of fuel or oxidant depletion or, ideally, the simultaneous depletion of both; the time at which this occurs. Compare cutoff. In the United Kingdom all burnt is preferred to burnout.2. An act or instance of something burning out or of overheating; specifically, an act or instance of a rocket combustion chamber, nozzle, or other part overheating so as to result in damage or destruction. (references) |
Military & Defense | The point in time or in the missile trajectory when combustion of fuels in the rocket engine is terminated by other than programmed cutt-off. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A situation encountered in coal seams, usually near the outcrop, where the coal has undergone combustion and burned. Initiation sources could includelightning, forest fires, etc. (references) |
Nuclear Energy & Physics | The change from nucleate to film boiling. The vapor film formed between the heated surface and the cooling liquid decreases the heat transfer from surface to liquid so that a maximum occurs in the curve of heat flux density versus temperature difference. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The rapid decrease in the density of neutral particles in a plasma due to the fact that the mechanisms or techniques of neutral-particle formation (recombination, neutral injection, etc. ) are, at the same time, slower than the destructive phenomena (ionization, charge exchange, etc. ). Source: European Union. (references) | |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Computer programmers as trade are often prone to burnout. See Death march for instance. However, research has shown that it is more likely to affect those in the care industries. Cordes and Doherty (1993), in their study of employees within this industry, found that workers who have frequent intense or emotionally charged interactions with others are more susceptible to burnout.
Burnout is also English slang for a habitual user of drugs.
Cordes, C. and Dougherty, T. (1993). A review and integration of research on job burnout. Academy of Management Review, 18, 621-656. Cited in O'Driscoll, M.P. and Cooper, C.L. (1996). Sources of Management of Excessive Job Stress and Burnout. In P. Warr (Ed.), Psychology at Work: Fourth Edition. Penguin.
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Burnout."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Cessation | Dead stop, dead stand, dead lock; finis, cerrado; blowout, burnout, meltdown, disintegration; comma, colon, semicolon, period, full stop; end; death. |
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Crosswords: BURNOUT |
| Specialty definitions using "BURNOUT": all burnt ♦ burnout ratio, burnt velocity ♦ coasting flight ♦ multiple hearth incinerator. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Police Story: Burnout (1988) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | The Hubble telescope continues to capture stunning, colorful snapshots of stellar burnout. ... Credit: NASA. |
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| "BURNOUT" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 77.78% of the time. "BURNOUT" is used about 9 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 77.78% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 11.11% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (proper) | 11.11% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 9 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "BURNOUT": burnout bulb ♦ burnout ratio ♦ burnout zone. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "BURNOUT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | udbraending, udbrændt (burned out, burnt out, exhausted, run-down). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | burnout. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | plasmoittuminen, plasmaksi palo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | fin de combustion, épuisement des neutres. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Ausbrennen (be burnt out, be gutted, become extinct, burn out, burnouts, cauterize, cautery, scorch, sear, to burn out). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | εξάντληση των ουδετέρων. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | שחיק" (abrasion, erosion, grating, grinding, pounding, rubbing, wear). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | morzsoló betörés, morzsoló betörő robbantás, kiégetés (baking, burn, curing, firing), kiégés (burn out). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | burn-out del plasma, esaurimento dei neutri, Allontanamento dalla ebollizione a nuclei (departure from nucleate boiling, transition heat flux). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | urnoutbay sobreaquecimento crítico (departure from nucleate boiling, transition heat flux), fluxo de calor de transição entre ebulição nucleada e em volume fraco (departure from nucleate boiling, transition heat flux), desvio da ebulição nucleada (departure from nucleate boiling, transition heat flux), combustão completa. (various references) límite de ebullición nucleada (departure from nucleate boiling, transition heat flux), flujo térmico transitorio (departure from nucleate boiling, transition heat flux), agotamiento de los neutros, abrasamiento (burning). (various references) utbränning (burn-up). (various references) yanma (combustion, swelter, tanning), rokette yanmanın bitmesi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "BURNOUT": burnouts. (additional references) | |
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"BURNOUT" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Barnault, bournous, Brunau, Brunot, Burhou, Burnant, burnoist, burnous, Burnu, burnup. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "BURNOUT" (pronounced ber"nou't) |
| 4 | -er" n ou' t | turnout. |
| 3 | -n ou' t | brownout. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: outburn. | |
| Words within the letters "b-n-o-r-t-u-u" | |
-1 letter: burton, outrun, rubout, runout. | |
-2 letters: bourn, brunt, burnt, turbo. | |
-3 letters: born, bort, bout, brut, bunt, burn, rout, runt, torn, tour, turn, unto. | |
-4 letters: bot, bro, bun, bur, but, nob, nor, not, nub, nut, orb, ort, our, out, rob, rot, rub, run, rut, ton, tor, tub, tun, urb, urn. | |
-5 letters: bo, no, nu, on, or, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-n-o-r-t-u-u" | |
+1 letter: burnouts, outburns, outburnt, runabout. | |
+2 letters: outburned, outnumber, runabouts, turnabout. | |
+3 letters: outburning, outnumbers, outrebound, roundabout, subroutine, turnabouts, untroubled. | |
+4 letters: groundburst, lucubration, outnumbered, outrebounds, roundabouts, subroutines, underbought, unobtrusive. | |
+5 letters: brontosaurus, elucubration, groundbursts, lucubrations, nonturbulent, outnumbering, outrebounded, rambunctious, surmountable, tubocurarine, unobstructed. | |
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