Deflation (disambiguation)
 |
Look up deflation in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. |
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.
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Wednesday, February 11, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.