Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The crowning member of an edifice; the architectural ornament or feature that terminates a façade, a ridged or pointed roof, a gable, a buttress, etc. Viollet-le-Duc.
- noun Same as
amortization .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Same as
amortization .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act or process of
amortizing .
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If the apparatus operates without appreciable wear, the amortizement should be calculated at a very low figure, say 10 per cent., which is large.
Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891 Various
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