Inflammation vs Inflation - What's the difference?
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The act of inflaming]], [[kindle, kindling, or setting on fire; also, the state of being inflamed.
(symptom) A condition of any part of the body, consisting of congestion of the blood vessels, with obstruction of the blood current, and growth of morbid tissue. It is manifested outwardly by redness and swelling, attended with heat and pain.
Violent excitement; heat; passion; animosity; turbulence; as an inflammation of the mind, of the body politic, or of parties.
An act, instance of, or state of expansion or increase in size, especially by injection of a gas.
(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.
As nouns the difference between inflation and inflammation
is that inflation is an act, instance of, or state of expansion or increase in size, especially by injection of a gas while inflammation is the act of inflaming, kindling, or setting on fire; also, the state of being inflamed.inflammation
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* See alsoinflation
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(wikipedia inflation)Noun
(en noun)- The inflation of the balloon took five hours.
