[hansvm]

Replace "amortized" with "on average" and you'll have the basic concept.

A constant time operation has bounded runtime for every input, but an amortized constant time operation can allow for much longer runtimes so long as they happen sufficiently rarely. Concretely, doing an amortized constant time operation N times should be O(N).

[StandardFuture]

It sounds like "amortized" is close to mathematically meaningless in that case.

Why not use actual statistics jargon at that point?

Sometimes we need to realize that the reactions of people inside of the software community are almost purely due to their own personal (usually social) insecurities and are not worth addressing.

We have an entire thread giving credibility to someone who absolutely idiotically dismissed another person for not knowing the meaning of a single word.

The person who was temporarily ignorant of the meaning of that word is not the one I am thinking needs to be ignored here.