inflation

Значение (Английский)

  1. (countable, uncountable) An act, instance of, or state of expansion or increase in size, especially by injection of a gas or liquid.
  2. (countable, uncountable) An increase in the quantity of money, leading to a devaluation of existing money, adjusted for by way of higher nominal values.
  3. (countable, uncountable) Undue expansion or increase, as of academic grades.
  4. (countable, uncountable) An extremely rapid expansion of the universe, theorized to have occurred very shortly after the Big Bang.

Частота

C2
Произносится как (IPA)
/ɪnˈfleɪʃən/
Этимология (Английский)

In summary

From Middle English, borrowed from Old French inflation (“swelling”), from Latin īnflātiō (“expansion", "blowing up”), from īnflātus, the perfect passive participle of īnflō (“blow into, expand”), from in (“into”) + flō (“blow”). By surface analysis, inflate + -ion.

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