Amortized vs Depreciate - What's the difference?
amortized | depreciate |
(amortize)
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 lessen in price or estimated value; to lower the worth of; to represent as of little value or claim to esteem; to undervalue.
* (rfdate) Cudworth
* (rfdate) Burke
To decline in value over time.
To belittle.
As verbs the difference between amortized and depreciate
is that amortized is past tense of amortize while depreciate is to lessen in price or estimated value; to lower the worth of; to represent as of little value or claim to esteem; to undervalue.amortized
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Verb
(head)amortize
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(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 ----depreciate
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Verb
(depreciat)- some over-severe philosophers may look upon fastidiously, or undervalue and depreciate .
- To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to depreciate the value of freedom itself.