amortized
Paid off gradually
Amortized describes costs or debts spread out over time rather than paid at once.
A mortgage is amortized when each payment covers both interest and principal, gradually reducing the balance to zero.
In computing and algorithm analysis, amortized cost averages expensive operations over many cheap ones: The amortized time complexity is constant, even though occasional operations take longer.
Borrowed money repaid later
- principalChief school administrator
- interestAttention, stake, or fee
- repaymentGiving back what's owed
- installmentPeriodic partial payment
schedule · annuity · debt · credit · payment · term · refinance · prepayment
Asset value reduction over time
- straight-lineWithout curves or bends
- expenseMoney paid out
- write-offRecorded value reduction
- goodwillKindly, generous spirit
patent · trademark · accrual · systematic · impairment · capitalized · GAAP
To distribute widely
- incrementalProceeding by small additions
- phasedIntroduced or removed incrementally
- distributedDivided and given out
- allocatedDesignated for distribution
prorated · deferred · periodic · systematic · portioned · staged · extended · apportioned
Fixed, unvarying quantity
- averageArithmetic mean or ordinary
- worst-caseMost unfavorable outcome imaginable
- complexityState of being complicated
- aggregateCombined sum total
operation · insertion · deletion · resizing · doubling · asymptotic · expected · bounds
loan
Borrowed money repaid later
installment · schedule · annuity · debt · credit · payment · term · refinance · prepayment · balloon
depreciation
Asset value reduction over time
- straight-lineWithout curves or bends
- expenseMoney paid out
- write-offRecorded value reduction
goodwill · patent · trademark · accrual · systematic · impairment · capitalized · GAAP
spread
To distribute widely
- incrementalProceeding by small additions
- phasedIntroduced or removed incrementally
- distributedDivided and given out
allocated · prorated · deferred · periodic · systematic · portioned · staged · extended · apportioned
constant
Fixed, unvarying quantity
- averageArithmetic mean or ordinary
- worst-caseMost unfavorable outcome imaginable
- complexityState of being complicated
aggregate · operation · insertion · deletion · resizing · doubling · asymptotic · expected · bounds · sequence
- financial termswealth, asset, currency, balance sheet, audit
- business adjectivescommercial, corporate, economic, financial, fiscal
- Algorithm Analysisruntime, running time, growth rate, complexity, linear
amortizedlump-sum
Entire amount together
unamortized · balloon payment · single payment · one-time payment · upfront
amortization, amortize, amortizing, amortizes, amortizations