inflation

nounattested in dialogue

United Kingdom//ɪnˈfleɪ.ʃn̩//
United States//ɪnˈfleɪ.ʃən//

An act, instance of, or state of expansion or increase in size, especially by injection of a gas or liquid.

noun

1
An act, instance of, or state of expansion or increase in size, especially by injection of a gas or liquid.
The inflation of the balloon took five hours.
2
An increase in the quantity of money, leading to a devaluation of existing money, adjusted for by way of higher nominal values.
Due to inflation, the monthly gym fee is rising by 10% from January.
3
Undue expansion or increase, as of academic grades.
4
An extremely rapid expansion of the universe, theorized to have occurred very shortly after the Big Bang.

Etymology

From Middle English, borrowed from Old French inflation (“swelling”), from Latin īnflātiō (“expansion", "blowing up”), from īnflātus, the perfect passive participle of īnflō (“blow into, expand”), from in (“into”) + flō (“blow”). By surface analysis, inflate + -ion.

Forms

plural: inflations

infinitely · In an infinite manner; as of anything growing without bounds;…infinity · Endlessness, unlimitedness, absence of a beginning, end or…infirmary · A place where sick or injured people are cared for,…

inflation · An act, instance of, or state of expansion or increase in size, especially by injection of a gas or liquid.

Inflation · The inflationary epoch of the Universe, where the size of the…inflict · To thrust upon; to impose.influence · The power to affect, control or manipulate something or…

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