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inflations

inflations is the plural of inflation.

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.

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Phrases with inflations

Questions about inflations

What is inflations the plural of?
Inflations is the plural of inflation.

Words near inflations in the dictionary

  1. inflationism
  2. inflationist
  3. inflationists
  4. inflationless
  5. inflationproof
  6. inflations
  7. inflative
  8. inflaton
  9. inflatonic
  10. inflatons
  11. inflatophilia

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