variation vs business cycle

business cycle vs variation

variation and business cycle both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
variation	Yes	No	No	No
business cycle	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, business cycle is a hyponym of variation; that is, business cycle is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than variation:

variation: an instance of change; the rate or magnitude of change
business cycle: recurring fluctuations in economic activity consisting of recession and recovery and growth and decline

Other hyponyms of variation include vicissitude, allomerism, departure, deviation, difference, divergence, permutation, replacement, substitution, switch, transposition, trade cycle, daily variation, diurnal variation, tide.

variation (noun)	business cycle (noun)
an activity that varies from a norm or standard	recurring fluctuations in economic activity consisting of recession and recovery and growth and decline
the act of changing or altering something slightly but noticeably from the norm or standard
(ballet) a solo dance or dance figure
an artifact that deviates from a norm or standard
something a little different from others of the same type
a repetition of a musical theme in which it is modified or embellished
an instance of change; the rate or magnitude of change
(biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration
(astronomy) any perturbation of the mean motion or orbit of a planet or satellite (especially a perturbation of the earth's moon)
the process of varying or being varied
the angle (at a particular location) between magnetic north and true north

Difference between variation and business cycle

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