Inflation (disambiguation)

In economics, inflation is the rise in the general level of prices.
In cosmology, astrophysics, and astronomy, inflation (cosmic inflation) is the idea—first proposed by Alan Guth (1981)—that the nascent universe passed through a phase of exponential expansion that was driven by a negative positive energy density (with negative vacuum pressure).
With respect to a system of matter, inflation is distention of matter by a fluid or gas.

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