Inflation vs Expand - What's the difference?
inflation | expand |
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.
(label) To change (something) from a smaller form and/or size to a larger one.
(label) To increase the extent, number, volume or scope of (something).
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
(label) To express (something) at length and/or in detail.
To rewrite (an expression) as a longer, yet equivalent sum of terms.
To multiply both the numerator and the denominator of a fraction by the same natural number yielding a fraction of equal value
(label) To (be) change(d) from a smaller form/size to a larger one.
(label) To (be) increase(d) in extent, number, volume or scope.
(label) To speak or write at length or in detail.
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, passage=There was some laughter, and Roddle was left free to expand his ideas on the periodic visits of cowboys to the town. “Mason Rickets, he had ten big punkins a-sittin' in front of his store, an' them fellers from the Upside-down-F ranch shot 'em up […].”}}
(label) To feel generous or optimistic.
As a noun inflation
is inflation.As a verb expand is
(label) to change (something) from a smaller form and/or size to a larger one.inflation
English
(wikipedia inflation)Noun
(en noun)- The inflation of the balloon took five hours.
Antonyms
* deflationDerived terms
* core inflation * grade inflation * hyperinflation * inflationary * stagflation * superinflation * taxonomic inflationReferences
* (cosmology) Burgess & , "The Great Cosmic Roller-Coaster Ride", Scientific American , November 2007, pg. 57.Anagrams
* ----expand
English
Verb
(en verb)- Then with expanded wings he steers his flight.
