inflation
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See also: Inflation
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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”). Morphologically inflate + -ion.
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Noun[edit]
inflation (countable and uncountable, plural inflations)
- An act, instance of, or state of expansion or increase in size, especially by injection of a gas.
- The inflation of the balloon took five hours.
- (economics) An increase in the quantity of money, leading to a devaluation of existing money.
- (economics) An increase in the general level of prices or in the cost of living.
- Due to inflation, the monthly gym fee is rising by 10% from January.
- (economics) A decline in the value of money.
- Undue expansion or increase, as of academic grades.
- (cosmology) An extremely rapid expansion of the universe, theorized to have occurred very shortly after the Big Bang.
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Translations[edit]
expansion or increase in size
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increase in the general level of prices or in the cost of living
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increase in the quantity of money, leading to a devaluation of existing money
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decline in the value of money
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inflation of the universe
References[edit]
- (cosmology) Burgess & Quevedo, "The Great Cosmic Roller-Coaster Ride", Scientific American, November 2007, pg. 57.
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Old French inflation, borrowed from Latin īnflātiōnem. Cf. also the dialectal enflaison, which may be of popular origin.
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /ɛ̃.fla.sjɔ̃/
Audio (file) - Homophone: inflations
Noun[edit]
inflation f (plural inflations)
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Further reading[edit]
- “inflation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Old French[edit]
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Noun[edit]
inflation f (oblique plural inflations, nominative singular inflation, nominative plural inflations)
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