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n. (context figuratively English) The speed at which a resource, especially cash, is consumed.
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Burn Rate: How I Survived the Gold Rush Years on the Internet, by Michael Wolff is the account of Wolff's dotcom company, Wolff New Media, in 1997.
In chemistry, the burn rate (or burning rate) is a measure of the linear combustion rate of a compound or substance such as a candle or a solid propellant. It is measured in length over time, such as "mm/second" or "inches/second". Among the variables affecting burn rate are pressure and temperature. Burn rate is an important parameter especially in the area of propellants because it determines the rate at which exhaust gases are generated from the burning propellant which in turn decides the rate of flow through the nozzle. The thrust generated in the rocket of missile depends on this rate of flow. Thus Knowing quantitatively the burning rate of a propellant, and how it changes under various conditions, is of fundamental importance in the successful design of a solid rocket motor. The concept of Burning rate is also relevant in case of liquid propellants.
Burn rate is another term for negative cashflow in economics. It may also refer to:
- Burn rate (chemistry)
- Burn Rate, a nonfiction book
Usage examples of "burn rate".
ITC had a fearsome burn rate: they had gone through more than $3 billion in the last nine years.
And as for humans who practiced magic, well, the burn rate there was just as high, if not higher.
We're talking about a burn rate of twenty-eight thousand feet per second.
The burn rate was a measure of how fast the explosive consumed itself and released energy.
Others would throw bursts of hot plasma through a ram field, or carbon vapor to produce sudden surges in the burn rate, or half a ton of pressurized radon gas in a stasis field.
It records my distance and speed and calorie-burn rate, and I can adjust it for degree of difficulty.