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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).

Inflation may also refer to:

Business and economics

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Education

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  • 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

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  • 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

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

Other

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See also

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Topics referred to by the same term
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