Amortize vs Amortization - What's the difference?
amortize | amortization |
To alienate (property) in mortmain.
To wipe out (a debt, liability etc.) gradually or in installments.
* 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 318:
(computer science) To even out the costs of running an algorithm over many iterations, so that high-cost iterations are much less frequent than low-cost iterations, which lowers the average running time per iteration.
The reduction of loan principal over a series of payments.
The distribution of the cost of an intangible asset, such as an intellectual property right, over the projected useful life of the asset.
As a verb amortize
is to alienate (property) in mortmain.As a noun amortization is
the reduction of loan principal over a series of payments.amortize
English
(wikipedia amortize) (Amortized analysis)Alternative forms
* amortiseVerb
(amortiz)- extraordinary borrowing had been so extensive, Joly de Fleury reckoned, that even if it were amortized over the following decade, the state would still be running an annual deficit of over 50 million livres.
