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Amortization or amortisation is the process of decreasing or accounting for an amount over a period of time. Particular instances of the term include: Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary (a portmanteau of wiki and dictionary) is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 150 languages. ...

• Amortization (business), the allocation of a lump sum amount to different time periods, particularly for loans and other forms of finance, including related interest or other finance charges.
  • Amortization schedule, a table detailing each periodic payment on a loan (typically a mortgage), as generated by an amortization calculator.
  • Negative amortization, an amortization schedule where the loan amount actually increases through not paying the full interest
• Amortized analysis, analyzing the execution cost of algorithms over a sequence of operations.
• Amortization of capital expenditures of certain assets under accounting rules, particularly intangible assets, in a manner analogous to depreciation.

Amortization is also used in the context of zoning regulations and describes the time in which a property owner has to relocate when the property's use constitutes a preexisting nniiokook nonconforming use under zoning regulations. For other uses of Amortization, see the Amortization disambiguation page. ... For other senses of this word, see interest (disambiguation). ... An amortization schedule is a table detailing each periodic payment on a loan (typically a mortgage), as generated by an amortization calculator. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... In finance, negative amortization, also known as NegAm, is an amortization method in which the borrower pays back less than the full amount of interest owed to the lender each month. ... In computational complexity theory, amortized analysis is the time per operation averaged over a worst_case sequence of operations. ... For other uses of Amortization, see the Amortization disambiguation page. ... Intangible assets are defined as assets that are not physical in nature. ... Declining-balance depreciation of a $50,000 asset with $6,500 salvage value over 20 years. ...

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