amortize

Meaning

1. (transitive) To alienate (property) in mortmain.
2. (transitive) To wipe out (a debt, liability etc.) gradually or in installments.
3. (transitive) 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.

Synonyms

amortise

deaden

redeem

cut short

shorten

abbreviate

cushion

cushioning

cut

foreshorten

redemption

reef

repay

pay itself off

truncate

write off

amortization of debt

give discount to

absorption of shock

shock mitigation

abridge

absorb

buffer

buffering

castrate

Translations

amortir

amortizar

afschrijven

amortisieren

afbetalen

aflossen

ammortare

ammortizzare

amortizar

amortitzar

amortiseren

delgen

tilgen

uitdelgen

Pronounced as (IPA)

/əˈmɔːtaɪz/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: amortisen

In summary

From Middle English amortisen, from Old French amortir (via the stem amortiss-), from Vulgar Latin *admortīre, derived from Latin mortuus (“dead”).