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Definition of Inflation
1. Noun. A general and progressive increase in prices. "In inflation everything gets more valuable except money"
Specialized synonyms: Cost-pull Inflation, Demand-pull Inflation, Reflation, Stagflation
Generic synonyms: Economic Process
Antonyms: Deflation, Disinflation
Derivative terms: Inflate, Inflate, Inflationary
2. Noun. (cosmology) a brief exponential expansion of the universe (faster than the speed of light) postulated to have occurred shortly after the big bang.
Generic synonyms: Blowup, Detonation, Explosion
3. Noun. Lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity.
Generic synonyms: Inelegance
Derivative terms: Ostentatious, Ostentatious, Pompous, Pompous, Pretentious, Pretentious, Ostentatious
4. Noun. The act of filling something with air.
Definition of Inflation
1. n. The act or process of inflating, or the state of being inflated, as with air or gas; distention; expansion; enlargement.
Definition of Inflation
1. Noun. An act, instance of, or state of expansion or increase in size, especially by injection of a gas. ¹
2. Noun. (economics) An increase in the general level of prices or in the cost of living. ¹
3. Noun. (economics) A decline in the value of money. ¹
4. Noun. (economics) An increase in the quantity of money, leading to a devaluation of existing money. ¹
5. Noun. Undue expansion or increase, as of academic grades. ¹
6. Noun. (context: cosmology) An extremely rapid expansion of the universe, theorised to have occurred very shortly after the big bang. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Inflation
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Medical Definition of Inflation
1. Distention by a fluid or gas. Synonym: vesiculation. Origin: L. Inflatio, fr. In-flo, pp. -flatus, to blow into, inflate (05 Mar 2000)