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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:
Inflation
In economics, inflation is a rise in the general level of prices of goods and services in an economy over a period of time.When the general price level rises, each unit of currency buys fewer goods and services. Consequently, inflation also reflects an erosion in the purchasing power of money – a...
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 inflationGrade inflationGrade inflation is the tendency of academic grades for work of comparable quality to increase over time.It is frequently discussed in relation to U.S. education, and to GCSEs and A levels in England and Wales...
, 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 inflationMonetary inflationMonetary inflation is a sustained increase in the money supply of a country. It usually results in price inflation, which is a rise in the general level of prices of goods and services . Originally the term "inflation" was used to refer only to monetary inflation, whereas in present usage it...
, an expansion in the quantity of money in an economy. - The act of inflating an inflatableInflatableAn inflatable is an object that can be inflated with a gas, usually with air, but hydrogen, helium and nitrogen are also used. One of several advantages of an inflatable is that it can be stored in a small space when not inflated, since inflatables depend on the presence of a gas to maintain their...
, anything designed to be expanded with air or gas (such as a balloon). - The action of INFLATE, the algorithm that reverses DEFLATEDEFLATEDeflate is a lossless data compression algorithm that uses a combination of the LZ77 algorithm and Huffman coding. It was originally defined by Phil Katz for version 2 of his PKZIP archiving tool and was later specified in RFC 1951....
compression. - The inflation map in group cohomologyGroup cohomologyIn abstract algebra, homological algebra, algebraic topology and algebraic number theory, as well as in applications to group theory proper, group cohomology is a way to study groups using a sequence of functors H n. The study of fixed points of groups acting on modules and quotient modules...
(mathematics).