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Inflation most commonly refers to a rise in the general price level over a period of time (also known as price inflation).

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• Business and economics
• Education
• Natural sciences
• Mathematics and computation
• Other
• See also

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; the inflationary epoch lasted at least 10⁻³⁵ seconds ^{[1] : 3}

• 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

• All pages with titles containing Inflation
• Expansion (disambiguation)
• Deflation (disambiguation), the antonym of inflation

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