depreciate
to reduce a debt by paying small regular amounts:
When asked what tolls would be required to amortize the payments under the contracts, he said the figures were astronomical.

amortization

noun[ U ](UK alsoamortisation)uk /əˌmɔːtɪˈzeɪʃən/ us /æmˌɔːrṱə-/
Costs before depreciation and amortisation jumped 45% in a single year.

Examples of amortize

amortize
This reuse permits the effort required to develop sets of transformations to be amortized over a large number of derivations.
Using this technique, the carry propogation which occurs when the final carry-save number is converted back to binary is amortized over many additions.
As with any context-dependent optimization, the time cost of specialization must be amortized across repeated executions of the specialized program.
Some expenditures have an impact over several periods and capital-type items should be amortized and charged accordingly.
However, it is easy to amortize the cost of those substitutions through the use of more sophisticated data structures to represent the typing environment.
By amortizing the cost of the reversal over those insertions, we see that each operation requires only 0(1) amortized time.
As initial failures of irrigation wells gives the life as zero, if a majority of wells have initial failure, then amortized cost will be infinity.
The amortized cost of watershed treatment forms around $7,897 (amortized at 2 per cent for 20 years, assumed to be the life of the watershed).
However, it can be shown that these operations take only (1) amortized time, even in a persistent setting.
The standard solutions require only 0(1) amortized time per operation, but might require 0(n) time for any particular operation.
The scanners were amortized over 7 years and the cyclotron over 20 years.
Chapter 6 explains in great detail the use of lazy evaluation to implement persistent, amortized data structures.
Specifically, sponsors of plans that are at least 70% funded have 7 years to amortize any shortfalls.
These costs were amortized over the lifespan of the equipment.
Typically, industry is allowed to amortize the cost of the failed therapies in research and development through the price of the successful treatments.
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