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inflationary, a.|ɪnˈfleɪʃənərɪ|
[f. inflation + -ary1.]
Of, pertaining to, characterized by, or involving (monetary) inflation.
1920Glasgow Herald 21 Aug. 7 The transition from an inflationary to a deflationary period in prices. 1921Spectator 28 May 677/1 The enormous Government loans, with their inflationary influence. 1930Time & Tide 1 Nov. 1356 France is uneasy about the inflationary effects of the gold she has collected. 1931Economist 12 Dec. 1118/1 Progressive depreciation of sterling..would..make the beginning of an all-round inflationary spiral a certainty. 1943Ann. Reg. 1942 31 Increases in basic wages had not been of a kind calculated to produce the inflationary spiral. 1945Webster Add., Inflationary gap, the gap between an increasing purchasing power, that is, money available for spending, and a shrinking or static supply of civilian goods available for purchase, which as it widens sets in motion an inflationary spiral. 1970T. Lupton Managem. & Social Sci. (ed. 2) ii. 46 The inflationary pressure generated by collective bargaining at the workplace in conditions of full employment.
Add:2. Astron. Designating (a model of) the universe conceived as having had a brief period of exponential expansion shortly after the big bang (see big a. B. 2 a), before re-entering the regime of linear expansion described by conventional big-bang theory.
1981A. H. Guth in Physical Rev. D. XXIII. 349/2, I will now describe a scenario, which I call the inflationary universe, which is capable of..large entropy production. 1984Sci. Amer. May 90/1 The model, known as the inflationary universe, agrees precisely with the generally accepted description of the observed universe for all times after the first 10-30 second. 1985McGraw-Hill Yearbk. Sci. & Technol. 1986 32/1 In the inflationary scenario the presently observed universe evolved from a region so small that light signals were able to cross it many times... This means that there was enough time to homogenize the system. 1989J. Silk Big Bang (rev. ed.) ix. 182 The predominance of nonbaryonic dark matter..is predicted by inflationary cosmology. |