Inflation (disambiguation)

Inflation most 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:

Business and economics Job title inflation 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 an exponential high rate 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) the pufferfish's ability to inflate its body when under duress

Mathematics and computation The action of INFLATE, the algorithm that reverses DEFLATE compression The inflation map in group cohomology (mathematics)

Other Body inflation, a type of paraphilia

See also

Expansion (disambiguation) Deflation (disambiguation), the antonym of inflation