inflation
An act, instance of, or state of expansion or increase in size, especially by injection of a gas or liquid.
Example
“The inflation of the balloon took five hours.”
Other meanings
An increase in the quantity of money, leading to a devaluation of existing money, adjusted for by way of higher nominal values.
“Due to inflation, the monthly gym fee is rising by 10% from January.”
Undue expansion or increase, as of academic grades.
Synonyms
- rising prices
Word history
From Latin "īnflātiō" (expansion", "blowing up).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “inflation” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.