Hypertext Webster Gateway: "inflation"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Inflation \In*fla"tion\, n. [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.
3. Undue expansion or increase, from overissue; -- said of
currency. [U.S.]
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
inflation
n 1: a general and progressive increase in prices; "in inflation
everything gets more valuable except money" [syn: {rising
prices}] [ant: {deflation}, {disinflation}]
2: (cosmology) a brief exponential expansion of the universe
(faster than the speed of light) postulated to have
occurred shortly after the big bang
3: a act of filling something with air [ant: {deflation}]
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