amortize

Meaning

Verb

• To alienate (property) in mortmain.
• To wipe out (a debt, liability etc.) gradually or in installments.
• 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.

Related

Opposite words

• accrue

Origin

• From (the stem of) Middle French amortir ("to bring to death"), probably from Vulgar Latin *admortīre, from Latin ad + mortuus.