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

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery