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Fluctuation vs Inflation - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between fluctuation and inflation

is that fluctuation is a motion like that of waves; a moving in this and that direction while inflation is inflation.

fluctuation

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A motion like that of waves; a moving in this and that direction.
    • the fluctuations of the sea
  • A wavering; unsteadiness.
    • fluctuations of opinion
    fluctuations of prices
  • In medicine, a wave-like motion or undulation of a fluid in a natural or abnormal cavity (e.g. pus in an abscess), which is felt during palpation or percussion.

    • Related terms

    * fluctuate

    inflation

    English

    (wikipedia 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

    Related terms

    * inflate * conflation * reflation

    References

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

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