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Inflation vs Tuberosity - What's the difference?

inflation | tuberosity | Related terms |

Inflation is a related term of tuberosity.


As nouns the difference between inflation and tuberosity

is that inflation is inflation while tuberosity is (uncountable) the condition of being tuberous.

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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    tuberosity

    English

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The condition of being tuberous
  • (countable, medicine) A rounded protuberance, at the end of a bone, to which a muscle or tendon is attached

    • Derived terms

    *deltoid tuberosity *facial tuberosity *ischial tuberosity *olecranon tuberosity *radial tuberosity *tibial tuberosity