Inflation (disambiguation)

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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:

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Business and economics

Education

  • Credential inflation, the devaluing of academic credentials and increase in academic requirements, due to the increase over time of the average level of education
  • Grade inflation, the increase over time of academic grades, faster than any real increase in standards

Natural sciences

  • Inflation (cosmology), the expansion of space in the early universe at an exponential high rate; the inflationary epoch lasted at least 10−35 seconds{{Cite book |last=Cox |first=Brian |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/973019447 |title=Universal: a guide to the cosmos |last2=Forshaw |first2=J. R. |date=2017 |publisher=Da Capo Press |isbn=978-0-306-82270-4 |edition=1 |location=Boston, MA |oclc=973019447}}{{rp|3}}

:* 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 (mathematics)

Other

See also

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