Amortize vs Repay - What's the difference?
amortize | repay |
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.
To pay back.
As verbs the difference between amortize and repay
is that amortize is to alienate (property) in mortmain while repay is to pay back.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.
Antonyms
* accrueAnagrams
* atomizer ----repay
English
Verb
- I finally repaid my student loans, just before sending my kids to college.