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Bunching vs Inflation - What's the difference?

bunching | inflation | Related terms |

Bunching is a related term of inflation.


As nouns the difference between bunching and inflation

is that bunching is (countable) an arrangement of items in a bunch while inflation is inflation.

As a verb bunching

is .

bunching

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (countable) An arrangement of items in a bunch.
  • * Isabella L. Bird
  • The foreign ladies, in their simple, tasteful, fresh attire, innocent of the humpings and bunchings , the monstrosities and deformities of ultra-fashionable bad taste, beamed with cheerfulness, friendliness, and kindliness.
  • (uncountable) The illegitimate supplying of laboratory animals that are actually kidnapped pets or illegally trapped strays.
  • inflation

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act, instance of, or state of expansion or increase in size, especially by injection of a gas.
  • The inflation of the balloon took five hours.
  • (economics) An increase in the general level of prices or in the cost of living.
  • (economics) A decline in the value of money.
  • (economics) An increase in the quantity of money, leading to a devaluation of existing money.
  • Undue expansion or increase, as of academic grades.
  • (cosmology) An extremely rapid expansion of the universe, theorised to have occurred very shortly after the big bang.
  • Antonyms

    * deflation

    Derived terms

    * core inflation * grade inflation * hyperinflation * inflationary * stagflation * superinflation * taxonomic inflation

    References

    * (cosmology) Burgess & , "The Great Cosmic Roller-Coaster Ride", Scientific American , November 2007, pg. 57.

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