Inflation (disambiguation)

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).

See also

• Deflation (disambiguation), the antonym of inflation.
• All pages with titles containing "Inflation".