amortize

Etymology
From, from (via the stem amortiss-), from , derived from.

Verb

 * 1)  To alienate (property) in mortmain.
 * 2)  To wipe out (a debt, liability etc.) gradually or in installments.
 * 3)  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.
 * 1)  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.

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Esperanto: amortizi
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Japanese: 償却する
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:, zamortyzować
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovak: amortizovať
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: