Lexic.us

Definition of Burn up

1. Verb. Burn brightly. "Every star seemed to flare with new intensity"

2. Verb. Use up (energy). "Burn off calories through vigorous exercise"

3. Verb. Burn completely; be consumed or destroyed by fire. "The mountain of paper went up in flames"

Definition of Burn up

1. Verb. (intransitive) To catch fire and burn until destroyed ¹

2. Verb. (transitive) To destroy by burning. ¹

3. Verb. (transitive) To anger; to annoy. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Burn Up

burn center burn down burn in hell burn mark burn notice burn off burn one's bridges burn one's candle at both ends burn one's fingers burn out

burn plant burn rubber burn the midnight oil burn to a crisp burn units burn up (current term) burnable burnables burndown burndowns

burne burned burned-out burned down burned out burner burner syndrome burners burnest burnet

Literary usage of Burn up

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Physics of Plutonium Recycling: A Report by OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (1995)
"Differences in the evolution with burn-up implies that there will be small ... The variation of k,nf with burn-up is an important design parameter for ..."

2. Utilisation and Reliability of High Power Proton Accelerators: Workshop by NEA Nuclear Science Committee (2005)
"Ideally, keff should be a high constant value during burn-up so as not to be ... To flatten the burn-up swing, two methods were investigated - adjustment of ..."

3. The Works of George Fox by George Fox (1831)
"... against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men; which word will hammer down all, and burn up all, and cut down all the ungodly; ..."

4. Fission Gas Behaviour in Water Reactor Fuels: Seminar Proceedings, Cadarache by OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (2002)
"Penetration depth of the high burn-up structure as a function of the pellet burn-up as revealed by optical microscopy At 100 MWd/kgU the high burn-up ..."

5. Basic Studies in the Field of High-Temperature Engineering: Second by Nea, Nihon Genshiryoku Kenkyūjo, Nuclear Energy Agency (2002)
"They have reached a calculated average burn-up of 8.6% FIMA with a maximum burn-up of about 20% FIMA. No particle defects were observed during the on-line ..."

6. Nuclear Production of Hydrogen: First Information Exchange Meeting, Paris by OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (2001)
"The peak burn-up and peak fluence values are both within the exiting database ... The burn-up reactivity loss over the 15-year cycle is a relatively modest ..."

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