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Webster 1913 Edition

Inflation

In-fla′tion

,
Noun.
[L.
inflatio
: cf. F.
inflation
.]
1.
The act or process of inflating, or the state of being inflated, as with air or gas; distention; expansion; enlargement.
Boyle.
2.
The state of being puffed up, as with pride; conceit; vanity.
B. Jonson.

Webster 1828 Edition

Inflation

INFLA'TION

,
Noun.
[L. inflatio.] The act of inflating.
1.
The state of being distended with air injected or inhaled.
2.
The state of being puffed up, as with vanity.
3.
Conceit.

Definition 2024

Inflation

Inflation

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German

Noun

Inflation f ‎(genitive Inflation, plural Inflationen)

  1. (economics) inflation

inflation

inflation

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English

Noun

inflation ‎(plural inflations)

  1. 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.
  2. (economics) An increase in the general level of prices or in the cost of living.
  3. (economics) A decline in the value of money.
  4. (economics) An increase in the quantity of money, leading to a devaluation of existing money.
  5. Undue expansion or increase, as of academic grades.
  6. (cosmology) An extremely rapid expansion of the universe, theorised to have occurred very shortly after the big bang.

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  • (cosmology) Burgess & Quevedo, "The Great Cosmic Roller-Coaster Ride", Scientific American, November 2007, pg. 57.

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French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɛ̃.fla.sjɔ̃/
  • Homophone: inflations

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin inflātiō.

Noun

inflation f ‎(plural inflations)

  1. (economics) inflation

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Old French

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin īnflātiō.

Noun

inflation f ‎(oblique plural inflations, nominative singular inflation, nominative plural inflations)

  1. (medicine) swelling

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