What's the difference between amortize and cost?

Amortize


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To make as if dead; to destroy.
  • (v. t.) To alienate in mortmain, that is, to convey to a corporation. See Mortmain.
  • (v. t.) To clear off or extinguish, as a debt, usually by means of a sinking fund.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) With recent recognition by many third party carriers this equipment may amortize itself rapidly but, more importantly, it may serve to identify neurological diseases of the bladder that are undetected by other conventional methods of investigation.
  • (2) If amortized additional capital costs are included, there is a 12% reduction in overall costs.
  • (3) Purchase and amortization of the pumps decreases the cost.
  • (4) If we were to freeze the system in its current state, amortize the development and network installation costs, and add projected maintenance costs for the clinical and library applications, our integrated information system would cost $2.8 million on an annual basis.
  • (5) Indirect costs for hospitals and physicians, including depreciation and amortization, debt service, utilities, malpractice insurance, administration, billing, registration, and medical records were not included.
  • (6) In addition, our criteria outline the characteristics of "distressed transactions" that, individually or collectively, we consider when forming an opinion on whether the resulting newly issued debt has "less value than the promise of the original securities," a primary condition of a distressed exchange or similar restructuring: The combination of any cash amount and principal amount of new securities offered is less than the original par amount; The interest rate is lower than the original interest rate; The new securities' maturities extend beyond the original; The timing of payments is slowed (eg zero-coupon from quarterly paying, or bullet from amortizing); or The ranking is altered to more junior.
  • (7) These include the impact of PACS on physician productivity, maintenance costs, discount rates, and the time period for amortization of capital goods.
  • (8) assumed the following functions: a) It filled up the masseter-zygomaticus-buccinator space forming an amortizing and a slipping platform for the masticatory muscles in action; b) in the baby, it resisted to the negative pressure which acted into the buccal cavity during sucking; c) its rich venous net, provided with valve-like structures, may be implicated in the exo-endocranial blood flow by means of the pterygoid plexus.
  • (9) These bundles appear to serve as a peculiar anchor or amortizing apparatus and its elasticity might be a factor of a change of the shape and direction of the canal vessels in the bone development process.
  • (10) Cost-efficiency: Amortized costs of monitoring systems that were apparently initially very expensive can be very low, especially in comparison with other capital outlays and the costs of disposable plastics and supplies used during anesthesia.
  • (11) In the present work are analyzed the most frequently met omissions and errors in the measurement and evaluation of the general vibrations, as well as the factors, which can effect the intensity of the general vibrations; constructive and technological peculiarities, technical state, rate of machine amortization, construction, damping qualities, and regulation of the seat, motion velocity, relief, type of the performed agricultural activity.
  • (12) The expenses for the amortization of the cost of the bunker, for ordinary and extraordinary maintenance, for the employed staff and for the electric power respectively, represent the 22%, 5%, 43% and 2% of the total management cost (395 milions lire per year).
  • (13) The average purchase cost of an accelerator was 1113 milions lire and the amortization cost is 111 milions lire per year.
  • (14) This goal could be achieved through a selection of significant images and examinations, considerably reducing the cost of film reproduction and allowing the amortization of a partial PACS in about 5 or 6 years.
  • (15) The EU would have to modify the fiscal compact to exempt the callable capital and allow actual losses to be amortized over a number of years.
  • (16) Exclusive of equipment costs, amortization, and data processing, the cost per study is $33.81 (Canadian), resulting in a cost of $8,277.62 for each case diagnosed.
  • (17) the readiness to bear objective as well as psychological "costs" without guarantee of amortization, is only slight.
  • (18) Excluding amortization of material and personnel costs, findings confirmed a certain number of advantages for AN: gain in time of about 34%, decrease of about 14% in charges, and notably of 83% in expenditure on films and 50% on contrast media.
  • (19) The implicity of this technique is depending however on the amortic thinking.
  • (20) Calculations of the total population exposure from nuclear medicine procedures indicate the per capita dose (amortized over the entire population) is approximately 0.4 muSv (0.04 mrem), a negligible dose compared to natural background and total medical irradiation.

Cost


Definition:

  • (n.) A rib; a side; a region or coast.
  • (n.) See Cottise.
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Cost
  • (v. t.) To require to be given, expended, or laid out therefor, as in barter, purchase, acquisition, etc.; to cause the cost, expenditure, relinquishment, or loss of; as, the ticket cost a dollar; the effort cost his life.
  • (v. t.) To require to be borne or suffered; to cause.
  • (v. t.) The amount paid, charged, or engaged to be paid, for anything bought or taken in barter; charge; expense; hence, whatever, as labor, self-denial, suffering, etc., is requisite to secure benefit.
  • (v. t.) Loss of any kind; detriment; pain; suffering.
  • (v. t.) Expenses incurred in litigation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Simplicity, high capacity, low cost and label stability, combined with relatively high clinical sensitivity make the method suitable for cost effective screening of large numbers of samples.
  • (2) An effective graft-surveillance protocol needs to be applicable to all patients; practical in terms of time, effort, and cost; reliable; and able to detect, grade, and assess progression of lesions.
  • (3) In the bars of Antwerp and the cafes of Bruges, the talk is less of Christmas markets and hot chocolate than of the rising cost of financing a national debt which stands at 100% of annual national income.
  • (4) Issues such as healthcare and the NHS, food banks, energy and the general cost of living were conspicuous by their absence.
  • (5) In choosing between various scanning techniques the factors to be considered include availability, cost, the type of equipment, the expertise of the medical and technical staff, and the inherent capabilities of the system.
  • (6) In documents due to be published by the bank, it will signal a need to shed costs from a business that employs 10,000 people as it scrambles to return to profit.
  • (7) This study examines the costs of screening patients for alcohol problems.
  • (8) A recent visit by a member of Iraq's government from Baghdad to Basra and back cost about $12,000 (£7,800), the cable claimed.
  • (9) It ignores the reduction in the wider, non-NHS cost of adult mental illness such as benefit payments and forgone tax, calculated by the LSE report as £28bn a year.
  • (10) There was a 35% decrease in the number of patients seeking emergency treatment and one study put the savings in economic and social costs at just under £7m a year .
  • (11) Environment groups Environment groups that have strongly backed low-carbon power have barely wavered in their opposition to nuclear in the last decade, although their arguments now are now much about the cost than the danger it might pose.
  • (12) From the social economic point of view nosocomial infections represent a very important cost factor, which could be reduced to great deal by activities for prevention of nosocomial infection.
  • (13) The stepped approach is cost-effective and provides an objective basis for decisions and priority setting.
  • (14) Failure to develop an adequate resource will be costly in the long run.
  • (15) The method is implemented with a digital non-causal (zero-phase shift) filter, based on the convolution with a finite impulse response, to make the computation time compatible with the use of low-cost microcomputers.
  • (16) Cost-effective immunoassays for the detection of amphetamines, benzodiazepines, and methadone in urine have been developed using Syva EMIT reagents and a Cobas Bio centrifugal analyser.
  • (17) Total costs of building the three missile destroyers in Australia will amount to more than $9bn, approximately three times the cost of buying the ships ready made from Spanish company Navantia, The Australian reported on Friday .
  • (18) For the non-emergency admissions, the low-load physicians' patients had an average LOS that was 56.2% greater and an average hospital cost that was 58.3% greater than were the LOS and cost of the patients of the high-load physicians.
  • (19) The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that the problems which arise from simultaneously developing regulatory and competitive approaches to health care cost containment can be solved, if recognized, and that those problems deserve more systematic investigation than they have so far received.
  • (20) But that gross margin only includes the cost of paying drivers as a cost of revenue, classifying everything else, such as operations, R&D, and sales and marketing, as “operating expenses”.

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