Inflation (disambiguation)

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Inflation 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:

  • Grade inflation, the increase over time of academic grades, faster than any real increase in standards.
  • Inflation (cosmology), the (theorized) exponential expansion of the very early universe.
  • Monetary inflation, an expansion in the quantity of money in an economy.
  • The act of inflating an inflatable, anything designed to be expanded with air or gas (such as a balloon).
  • The action of INFLATE, the algorithm that reverses DEFLATE compression.
  • The inflation map in group cohomology (mathematics).

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