Accrue vs. Amortize
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Difference Between Accrue and Amortize
Accrueverb
(intransitive) To increase, to augment; to come to by way of increase; to arise or spring as a growth or result; to be added as increase, profit, or damage, especially as the produce of money lent.
Amortizeverb
(transitive) To alienate (property) in mortmain.
Accrueverb
To be incurred as a result of the passage of time.
The monthly financial statements show all the actual but only some of the accrued expenses.Amortizeverb
(transitive) To wipe out (a debt, liability etc.) gradually or in installments.
Accrueverb
(transitive) to accumulate
He has accrued nine sick days.Amortizeverb
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.
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Accrueverb
To become an enforceable and permanent right.
Amortizeverb
liquidate gradually
Accruenoun
(obsolete) Something that accrues; advantage accruing
Accrueverb
grow by addition;
The interest accruesAccrueverb
come into the possession of;
The house accrued to the oldest son
