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Inflation
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.]
Meaning of Inflation from wikipedia
- In economics,
inflation is a
general increase in the
prices of
goods and
services in an economy. This is
usually measured using the
consumer price index...
- A
worldwide surge in
inflation began in mid-2021, with many
countries seeing their highest inflation rates in decades. It has been
attributed to various...
- In
physical cosmology,
cosmic inflation,
cosmological inflation, or just
inflation, is a
theory of
exponential expansion of
space in the
early universe...
-
Eternal inflation is a
hypothetical inflationary universe model,
which is
itself an
outgrowth or
extension of the Big Bang theory.
According to eternal...
-
Inflationism is a
heterodox economic, fiscal, or
monetary policy, that
predicts that a
substantial level of
inflation is harmless,
desirable or even advantageous...
- In statistics, the
variance inflation factor (VIF) is the
ratio (quotient) of the
variance of a
parameter estimate when ****ing a full
model that includes...
-
Educational inflation is the
increasing educational requirements for
occupations that do not
require them.
Credential inflation is the
increasing overqualification...
- Built-in
inflation is a type of
inflation that
results from past
events and
persists in the present. Built-in
inflation is one of
three major determinants...
- In macroeconomics,
inflation targeting is a
monetary policy where a
central bank
follows an
explicit target for the
inflation rate for the medium-term...
- used to
track inflation over time and to
compare inflation rates between different countries. The CPI is not a
perfect measure of
inflation or the cost...
