Commonly, deflation refers to a decrease in the general price level, the opposite of inflation.
Deflation may also refer to:
- A release or escape of air or gas from an inflatable, resulting in its shrinking or collapsing
- A mode of wind erosion
- Dividing a polynomial by a linear factor which decreases its degree by one in multiple root-finding algorithms, as done for example in the Jenkins–Traub algorithm
- In philosophy, the use of a deflationary theory of truth, where the term truth is rejected as a real property of propositions
- Deflation (film), a 2001 short film
- The Great Deflation, a period of worldwide economic deflation occurring roughly between the years 1870–90
- Deflate, a widely used lossless compression algorithm originating from the program PKZIP
See also
- Deflationary theory of truth
- Inflation (disambiguation), the antonym of deflation
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