Inflation (disambiguation)

Inflation most commonly refers to a rise in the general price level over a period of time (also known as price inflation).

Inflation may also refer to:

Business and economics

 * Job title inflation
 * Monetary inflation, an expansion in the quantity of money in an economy

Education

 * Credential inflation, the devaluing of academic credentials and increase in academic requirements, due to the increase over time of the average level of education
 * Grade inflation, the increase over time of academic grades, faster than any real increase in standards

Natural sciences

 * Inflation (cosmology), the expansion of space in the early universe at a very high rate; the inflationary epoch lasted from 10−36 seconds after the Big Bang to sometime between 10−33 and 10−32 seconds
 * Warm inflation, a particular description of cosmological inflation


 * The act of inflating an inflatable, anything designed to be expanded with air or gas (such as a balloon)
 * The pufferfish's ability to inflate its body when under duress.

Mathematics and computation

 * The action of INFLATE, the algorithm that reverses DEFLATE compression
 * The inflation map in group cohomology (mathematics)

Other

 * Body inflation, a type of paraphilia.