amortize.
To alienate (property) in mortmain.
Meaning & usage
To alienate (property) in mortmain.
To wipe out (a debt, liability etc.) gradually or in installments.
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).
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). 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.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English amortisen, from Old French amortir (via the stem amortiss-), from Vulgar Latin *admortīre, derived from Latin mortuus (“dead”).
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