Associations to the word «Amortize»

Wiktionary

AMORTIZE, verb. (transitive) To alienate (property) in mortmain.
AMORTIZE, verb. (transitive) To wipe out (a debt, liability etc.) gradually or in installments.
AMORTIZE, verb. (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 per iteration.

Dictionary definition

AMORTIZE, verb. Liquidate gradually.

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King