inflation
See also: Inflation
English
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”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɪnˈfleɪʃən/
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun
inflation (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 general level of prices or in the cost of living.
- (economics) A decline in the value of money.
- (economics) An increase in the quantity of money, leading to a devaluation of existing money.
- Undue expansion or increase, as of academic grades.
- (cosmology) An extremely rapid expansion of the universe, theorised to have occurred very shortly after the big bang.
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Translations
expansion or increase in size
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increase in prices
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inflation of the universe
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References
- (cosmology) Burgess & Quevedo, "The Great Cosmic Roller-Coaster Ride", Scientific American, November 2007, pg. 57.
French
Etymology
From Old French inflation, borrowed from Latin inflātiō, inflātiōnem. Cf. also the dialectal enflaison, which may be of popular origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛ̃.fla.sjɔ̃/
Audio (file) - Homophone: inflations
Antonyms
Further reading
- “inflation” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Old French
Noun
inflation f (oblique plural inflations, nominative singular inflation, nominative plural inflations)
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