inflation
noun
- increase in the general price level of goods and services in an economy over a period of time
- expansion; blowing up with air for example
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ɪnˈfleɪ.ʃən/ / /ɪnˈfleɪ.ʃn̩/
name
Etymology: From inflation.
- The inflationary epoch of the Universe, where the size of the space of universe expanded at speeds beyond the speed of light. One of the ages of the Universe. The cosmic era when most formulations of Big Bang theory start their timelines.
noun
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.
- 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.”
- 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.”
- Undue expansion or increase, as of academic grades.
- An extremely rapid expansion of the universe, theorized to have occurred very shortly after the Big Bang.