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“Amortized” or “Amortised”

Amortized is predominantly used in American (US) English (en-US) while amortised is predominantly used in British English (used in UK/AU/NZ) (en-GB).

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Usage by country

Where each spelling is used

Of the 12 countries below, 6 prefer “amortized” and 4 prefer “amortised”. Usage levels are out of 100; the more common spelling in each country is in bold.

Usage level out of 100 (if available).
Country amortized amortised Preference
United States 99 1 “amortized”
United Kingdom 29 71 “amortised”
India 72 28 “amortized”
Philippines 97 3 “amortized”
Canada 96 4 “amortized”
Australia 26 74 “amortised”
Liberia 0 0 Not enough data
Ireland 32 68 “amortised”
New Zealand 40 60 “amortised”
Jamaica 100 0 “amortized”
Trinidad & Tobago 100 0 “amortized”
Guyana 0 0 Not enough data
Usage

Examples in context

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“amortized”

  • …since their tooling had been amortized and each one sold turned…
  • …the costs were capitalized and amortized, with adjustments,
  • …hash algorithms and in creating amortized searching and sorting algorithms.
  • Amortized analysis
  • …would only extend mortgages that amortized in 15 years or less…
  • …insertion and deletion requires O(1) amortized time, the total deterministic time…
  • …stores element sequences, and provides amortized O(1) time append and prepend…
  • …rename the smaller sub-component, the amortized time for a delete operation…
  • Indeed, the difference between amortized cost and fair value captures…
  • …expenses must be capitalized and amortized.

“amortised”

  • Amortised cost
  • …case they are stated at amortised cost, providing a constant rate…
  • Borrowing is stated at amortised cost using the effective interest
  • …value of debt and are amortised over the period of the…
  • …of local Australian content and amortised tooling.
  • …had to write-down the non amortised contract value of around €32,000.
  • …same subtree is possible in amortised where is the inverse Ackermann
  • Subsequent measurement is stated at amortised cost (IAS39.46 and 47).
  • …at most one decreaseKey operation (amortised in ) is performed and…
  • …a relationship, the lower the amortised cost.

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