poisto — meaning in English

English meaning

• amortization noun The process of paying off a debt in regular instalments over a set period, so that each payment covers interest and part of the principal until the balance reaches zero.
• deletion noun An item that has been or will be deleted.
• depreciation noun In accounting, the spreading of the cost of an asset over the years it is used, recorded as an expense to reflect the value it loses through wear and age.
• excision noun The removal of some text during editing.
• omission noun The act of leaving something out, or something that has been left out.
• removal noun The act of taking something away or getting rid of it.

Senses

poisto is used for these senses in English:

• amortization The distribution of the cost of an intangible asset, such as an intellectual property right, over the projected useful life of the asset.
• deletion An item that has been or will be deleted. [1580s]
• deletion The act of deleting. [c. 1600]
• depreciation (accounting) The measurement of the decline in value of assets. Not to be confused with impairment, which is the measurement of the unplanned, extraordinary decline in value of assets.
• omission (countable) An instance of those acts, or the thing left out thereby; something deleted or left out.
• removal The process of removing or the fact of being removed.

amortization — full definition

1. noun The process of paying off a debt in regular instalments over a set period, so that each payment covers interest and part of the principal until the balance reaches zero.
2. noun In accounting, the spreading of the cost of an intangible asset, such as a patent or software licence, across the years in which it is expected to be useful.

deletion — full definition

1. noun An item that has been or will be deleted.
2. noun The act of deleting.
3. noun A mutation in which a gene, or other section of DNA, is removed from a chromosome.
4. noun An act of killing or murder.

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