amortize

verb4

1. •
   To wipe out (a debt, liability etc.) gradually or in installments.
2. •
   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).

   • The magnitude of the frequency adjustment is a compromise between time accuracy, which would favor a large frequency offset so as to amortize the time error over the smallest possible interval — 2021
3. •
   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.
4. •
   To alienate (property) in mortmain.