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Inflation vs Convexity - What's the difference?

inflation | convexity | Related terms |

Inflation is a related term of convexity.


As nouns the difference between inflation and convexity

is that inflation is inflation while convexity is the state of being convex.

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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    convexity

    English

    Noun

    (convexities)
  • the state of being convex
  • a convex line or surface
  • a measure of the curvature in the relationship between the prices and yields of bonds

    • Antonyms

    * concavity