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amortisements

amortisements is the plural of amortisement.

Meaning of amortisement

Noun (1)

amortisement (countable and uncountable, plural amortisements)

  1. (obsolete) Synonym of amortization.
    • For example, upon the basis of its present operations, the annual charge of the Preussiche-Hypotheken-Actien-Bank for a loan of $1000, payable in fifty-seven years, would be 4½ per cent. or $45 per annum—interest being calculated at the rate of 4 per cent. and the annual installment or amortisement...1898 September, Oren Taft, Jr., “Land Credit”, in The Journal of Political Economy, volume 6, number 4, page 477
    Synonyms:
    amortization

Noun (2)

amortisement (plural amortisements)

  1. A decorative element that appears at the top of a roof, gable, arch, buttress, or other structure that comes to a peak.
    • It is easy to see, however, that the straight arch was constructed first, and that its keystone had an amortisement to which the second diagonal was to be attached. But the unskillful builders placed this amortisement not quite true, not precisely in the direction of the springing of the second...1911, Arthur Kingsley Porter, The Construction of Lombard and Gothic Vaults, page 13

Questions about amortisements

What is amortisements the plural of?
Amortisements is the plural of amortisement.

Words near amortisements in the dictionary

  1. amortisation
  2. amortisations
  3. amortise
  4. amortised
  5. amortisement
  6. amortisements
  7. amortises
  8. amortising
  9. amortisseur
  10. amortisseur winding
  11. amortisseur windings

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