Inflation most commonly refers to a rise in the general price level over a period of time (also known as ''price inflation'').
Inflation may also refer to:
Business and economics
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Job title inflation
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Monetary inflation
Monetary inflation is a sustained increase in the money supply of a country (or currency area). Depending on many factors, especially public expectations, the fundamental state and development of the economy, and the transmission mechanism, it ...
, an expansion in the quantity of money in an economy
Education
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Credential inflation, the devaluing of academic credentials and increase in academic requirements, due to the increase over time of the average level of education
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Grade inflation, the increase over time of academic grades, faster than any real increase in standards
Natural sciences
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Inflation (cosmology), the expansion of space in the early universe at a very high rate; the inflationary epoch lasted from 10
−36 seconds after the Big Bang to sometime between 10
−33 and 10
−32 seconds
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Warm inflation, a particular description of cosmological inflation
* The act of inflating an
inflatable, anything designed to be expanded with air or gas (such as a balloon)
* The pufferfish's ability to
inflate its body when under duress.
Mathematics and computation
* The action of INFLATE, the algorithm that reverses
DEFLATE compression
* The inflation map in
group cohomology
In mathematics (more specifically, in homological algebra), group cohomology is a set of mathematical tools used to study groups using cohomology theory, a technique from algebraic topology. Analogous to group representations, group cohomology loo ...
(mathematics)
Other
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Body inflation
Body inflation is the practice of inflating or pretending to inflate a part of one's body, often for sexual gratification. It is commonly done by inserting balloons underneath clothes or a skin-tight suit and then inflating them. Some people h ...
, a type of paraphilia.
See also
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Expansion (disambiguation)
Expansion may refer to:
Arts, entertainment and media
* ''L'Expansion'', a French monthly business magazine
* Expansion (album), ''Expansion'' (album), by American jazz pianist Dave Burrell, released in 2004
* Expansions (McCoy Tyner album), ''Exp ...
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Deflation (disambiguation), the antonym of inflation
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