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• amortise (British spelling)

語源

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

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /əˈmɔːtaɪz/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈæmɚtaɪz/, /əˈmɔɹtaɪz/

動詞

amortize (third-person singular simple present amortizes, present participle amortizing, simple past and past participle amortized)

1. (real estate, property law, transitive) To alienate (property) in mortmain.
2. (business, finance, transitive) To wipe out (a debt, liability etc.) gradually or in installments.
   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 318:

     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.

   • 2019, Gordon Korman, The Unteachables, page 141:

     "Be reasonable," she pleads. "He's built a business. He could give a math unit on earnings versus expenses, or how to amortize a loan. He could let us tour his repair shop and maybe teach us about basic auto mechanics."

3. (transitive, by extension) 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).
   • 2021 January 13, Y. Jade Morton, Frank van Diggelen, James J. Spilker, Jr., Bradford W. Parkinson, Sherman Lo, Grace Gao, Position, Navigation, and Timing Technologies in the 21st Century: Integrated Satellite Navigation, Sensor Systems, and Civil Applications, Volume 1, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 847:

     The magnitude of the frequency adjustment is a compromise between time accuracy, which would favor a large frequency offset so as to amortize the time error over the smallest possible interval

   1. (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.

反意語

• accrue

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Further reading

• Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “amortize”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

アナグラム

• atomizer