verb To wipe out (a debt, liability etc.) gradually or in installments.
verb 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). 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.
verb 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.