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Inflation vs Dilation - What's the difference?

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Inflation is a related term of dilation.


As nouns the difference between inflation and dilation

is that inflation is inflation while dilation is the act of dilating.

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.

    Anagrams

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    dilation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of dilating.
  • State of being dilated; expansion; dilatation.
  • (obsolete) Delay.
    • (Bishop Hall)

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