Credential inflation, the devaluing of academic credentials and increase in academic requirements, due to the increase over time of the average level of education
Grade inflation, the increase over time of academic grades, faster than any real increase in standards
Natural sciencesedit
Inflation (cosmology), the expansion of space in the early universe at a very high rate; the inflationary epoch lasted from 10−36 seconds after the Big Bang to sometime between 10−33 and 10−32 seconds
Warm inflation, a particular description of cosmological inflation
The act of inflating an inflatable, anything designed to be expanded with air or gas (such as a balloon)
The pufferfish's ability to inflate its body when under duress.
Mathematics and computationedit
The action of INFLATE, the algorithm that reverses DEFLATE compression