amortize
verb/əˈmɔːtaɪz/UK/ˈæmɚtaɪz/US
Etymology
From Middle English amortisen, from Old French amortir (via the stem amortiss-), from Vulgar Latin *admortīre, derived from Latin mortuus (“dead”).
- derived from *admortīre✻
- derived from amortir
- inherited from amortisen
Definitions
To alienate (property) in mortmain.
To wipe out (a debt, liability etc.) gradually or in installments.
- 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.
To even out the costs of running an algorithm over many iterations, so that high-cost…
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.
The neighborhood
- antonymaccrue
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA