HOW TO PRONOUNCE
amortize
/ˈæmɚtaɪz/
Press play to hear how to pronounce amortize.
American Pronunciation Guide · 1:03
Watch on YouTube ↗
Watch on YouTube ↗
What does amortize mean?
verb
- To alienate (property) in mortmain.
- To wipe out (a debt, liability etc.) gradually or in installments.
- 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).
More meanings (1)
verb
- 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.
Definitions regrouped for readability · CC BY-SA 4.0
IPA pronunciation
/ˈæmɚtaɪz/
Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗Pronunciation varies by speaker and region. About these dictionary pronunciations.
In the pages of books
No suitable book passage is available for this word yet.