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:

Economics

• Monetary inflation, an expansion in the quantity of money in an economy

Education

• Credential inflation, the devaluing of academic credentials and increase in academic requirements, due to the increase over time of the average level of education
• Grade inflation, the increase over time of academic grades, faster than any real increase in standards

Natural sciences

• Inflation (cosmology), the expansion of space in the early universe at a rate much faster than the speed of light; the inflationary epoch lasted from 10⁻³⁶ seconds after the Big Bang to sometime between 10⁻³³ and 10⁻³² seconds
• Warm inflation, a particular description of cosmological inflation
• The act of inflating an inflatable, anything designed to be expanded with air or gas (such as a balloon)

Mathematics and computation

• 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"