Expansion vs Inflation - What's the difference?
expansion | inflation |
The act or process of expanding.
The fractional change in unit length per unit length per unit temperature change.
A new addition.
A product to be used with a previous product.
That which is expanded; expanse; extended surface.
* Beattie
(steam engines) The operation of steam in a cylinder after its communication with the boiler has been cut off, by which it continues to exert pressure upon the moving piston.
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 expansion and inflation
is that expansion is the act or process of expanding while inflation is an act, instance of, or state of expansion or increase in size, especially by injection of a gas.expansion
English
Noun
- The expansion of metals and plastics in response to heat is well understood.
- My new office is in the expansion behind the main building.
- This expansion requires the original game board.
- the starred expansion of the skies
Antonyms
* (act of expanding) contractionDerived terms
* expansionism * expansion joint * expansion team * expansion cleat * expansion packinflation
English
(wikipedia inflation)Noun
(en noun)- The inflation of the balloon took five hours.