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infl.

infl. is the abbreviation of inflation.

infl. is the abbreviation of inflection.

Meaning of inflation

Noun

inflation (countable and uncountable, plural inflations)

  1. An act, instance of, or state of expansion or increase in size, especially by injection of a gas or liquid.
    • The inflation of the balloon took five hours.
  2. 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.
  3. Undue expansion or increase, as of academic grades.
  4. An extremely rapid expansion of the universe, theorized to have occurred very shortly after the Big Bang.

See all 5 meanings of inflation

Meaning of inflection

Noun

inflection (countable and uncountable, plural inflections)

  1. (uncountable) The linguistic phenomenon of morphological variation, whereby words take a number of distinct forms in order to express different grammatical features.
    • In English, word order often does the work that inflection did in Latin.
    1. (countable) Any specific type of morphological variation, which applies to a given word class.
      • The second-person imperative is a verbal inflection found in many Indo-European languages.
    2. (countable) An affix representing a given variation.
      • English's regular inflection for number in plural nouns is the suffix -s.
    3. (countable) Any specific morphological form of a particular word, such as the principal parts for any given stem; any of the declined or conjugated forms that constitute its declension or conjugation.
      • Recite every inflection for each of these words.
  2. A change in pitch or tone of voice.
  3. A change in curvature from concave to convex or from convex to concave.

See all 8 meanings of inflection

Questions about infl.

What is infl. the abbreviation of?
Infl. is the abbreviation of inflation.

Words near infl. in the dictionary

  1. infixions
  2. infixive
  3. infixt
  4. INFJ
  5. INFJs
  6. infl.
  7. inflamatory
  8. inflame
  9. inflamed
  10. inflamedly
  11. inflamedness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: infl. (page history and authors); inflation (page history and authors); inflection (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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