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English

Etymology

From Old French elevation, from Latin elevatio, equal to elevate +? -ion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??l??ve???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

elevation (countable and uncountable, plural elevations)

1. The act of raising from a lower place, condition, or quality to a higher; said of material things, persons, the mind, the voice, etc.

   the elevation of grain; elevation to a throne; elevation to sainthood; elevation of mind, thoughts, or character

2. The condition of being or feeling elevated; heightened; exaltation.
3. That which is raised up or elevated; an elevated place or station.

   A hill is an elevation of the ground.

4. (astronomy) The distance of a celestial object above the horizon, or the arc of a vertical circle intercepted between it and the horizon; altitude.

   the elevation of the pole, or of a star

5. The measured vertical distance from the peak of a mountain or hill to its bordering lowlands.
6. The angle which the gnomon makes with the substylar line.
7. The movement of the axis of a piece in a vertical plane; also, the angle of elevation, that is, the angle between the axis of the piece and the line of sight; distinguished from direction.
8. (architecture) A geometrical projection of a building, or other object, on a plane perpendicular to the horizon; orthographic projection on a vertical plane; called by the ancients the orthography.
9. (Christianity) The raising of the host—representing Christ’s body—in a mass or Holy Communion service.

Antonyms

• disgust
• demotion
• depression
• diminishment
• reduction

Related terms

• elevate
• elevator
• overelevation

Translations

See also

• fasl
• masl

English

Etymology

From Middle English, borrowed from Old French inflation (“swelling”), from Latin ?nfl?ti? (“expansion", "blowing up”), from ?nfl?tus, the perfect passive participle of ?nfl? (“blow into, expand”), from in (“into”) + fl? (“blow”).Morphologically inflate +? -ion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?fle???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

inflation (plural inflations)

1. An act, instance of, or state of expansion or increase in size, especially by injection of a gas.

   The inflation of the balloon took five hours.

2. (economics) An increase in the general level of prices or in the cost of living.
3. (economics) A decline in the value of money.
4. (economics) An increase in the quantity of money, leading to a devaluation of existing money.
5. Undue expansion or increase, as of academic grades.
6. (cosmology) An extremely rapid expansion of the universe, theorised to have occurred very shortly after the big bang.

Antonyms

• deflation

Derived terms

Related terms

• inflate
• conflation
• reflation

Translations

References

• (cosmology) Burgess & Quevedo, "The Great Cosmic Roller-Coaster Ride", Scientific American, November 2007, pg. 57.

Anagrams

• inflatino

French

Etymology

From Old French inflation, borrowed from Latin infl?ti?, infl?ti?nem. Cf. also the dialectal enflaison, which may be of popular origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.fla.sj??/
• Homophone: inflations

Noun

inflation f (plural inflations)

1. (economics) inflation

Antonyms

• déflation

Related terms

• enfler
• enflure

Further reading

• “inflation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ?nfl?ti?.

Noun

inflation f (oblique plural inflations, nominative singular inflation, nominative plural inflations)

1. (medicine) swelling

Descendants

• ? English: inflation
• French: inflation