Meaning

An act, instance of, or state of expansion or increase in size, especially by injection of a gas or liquid..

Definitions by Sense

1. An act, instance of, or state of expansion or increase in size, especially by injection of a gas or liquid.
2. (economics) An increase in the quantity of money, leading to a devaluation of existing money, adjusted for by way of higher nominal values.
3. Undue expansion or increase, as of academic grades.
4. (cosmology) An extremely rapid expansion of the universe, theorized to have occurred very shortly after the Big Bang.

Example Sentences

The inflation of the balloon took five hours.

Due to inflation, the monthly gym fee is rising by 10% from January.

Word Forms

• inflations

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Use inflation when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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