Deflation (disambiguation)

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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.

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