Deflation (disambiguation)

Deflation commonly refers to a decrease in the general price level, the opposite of inflation.

Deflation may also refer to:

• A release or escape of air or gas from an inflatable, resulting in its shrinking or collapsing
• The Great Deflation, a period of worldwide economic deflation occurring roughly between the years 1870–1890
• DEFLATE (algorithm), a widely used lossless compression algorithm originating from the program PKZIP
• Eolian erosion, also called deflation
• Deflation (film), a 2001 short film
• Dividing a polynomial by a linear factor which decreases its degree by one. This is done for example in the Jenkins-Traub algorithm.
• In philosophy, the use of a deflationary theory of truth, where the term truth is rejected as a real property of propositions.

See also

• Inflation (disambiguation), the antonym of deflation.