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Amortize vs Amortized - What's the difference?

amortize | amortized |

As verbs the difference between amortize and amortized

is that amortize is to alienate (property) in mortmain while amortized is (amortize).

amortize

English

(wikipedia amortize) (Amortized analysis)

Alternative forms

* amortise

Verb

(amortiz)
  • To alienate (property) in mortmain.
  • To wipe out (a debt, liability etc.) gradually or in installments.
  • * 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 318:
  • 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.
  • (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.
  • Antonyms

    * accrue

    Anagrams

    * atomizer ----

    amortized

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (amortize)

  • amortize

    English

    (wikipedia amortize) (Amortized analysis)

    Alternative forms

    * amortise

    Verb

    (amortiz)
  • To alienate (property) in mortmain.
  • To wipe out (a debt, liability etc.) gradually or in installments.
  • * 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 318:
  • 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.
  • (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.
  • Antonyms

    * accrue

    Anagrams

    * atomizer ----