Inflation (disambiguation)

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In economics, inflation can be an increased money supply and/or general raising of prices.

Inflation may also mean:

• Cosmic inflation, the idea in cosmology, astrophysics, and astronomy—first proposed by Alan Guth (1981)—that the nascent universe passed through a phase of exponential expansion that was driven by a negative energy density (with negative vacuum pressure).
• Inflation (matter), distention of matter by a fluid or gas with respect to a system of matter.
• Inflation fetishism (aka "inflatophilia"), the process, through role-playing, art, or real-life scenarios, by which someone is inflated by any of various substances, usually by air, fat, liquid, and/or muscle.

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