amortize

== English == === Alternative forms === amortise (British spelling) === Etymology === From Middle English amortisen, from Old French amortir (via the stem amortiss-), from Vulgar Latin *admortīre, derived from Latin mortuus (“dead”). === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əˈmɔːtaɪz/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈæmɚtaɪz/, /əˈmɔɹtaɪz/ === Verb === amortize (third-person singular simple present amortizes, present participle amortizing, simple past and past participle amortized) (real estate, property law, transitive) To alienate (property) in mortmain. (business, finance, transitive) To wipe out (a debt, liability etc.) gradually or in installments. (transitive, by extension) To make a large cost or other quantity more manageable by dividing it into smaller parts (such as over a long time or across many transactions). (transitive, 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. ==== Antonyms ==== accrue ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Further reading === Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “amortize”, in Online Etymology Dictionary. === Anagrams === atomizer == Portuguese == === Verb === amortize inflection of amortizar: first/third-person singular present subjunctive third-person singular imperative