"flation" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "By analogy with inflation and deflation.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "flation (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Cartography",
          "orig": "en:Cartography",
          "parents": [
            "Geography",
            "Earth sciences",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2016, Sarah E. Battersby, Daniel “daan” Strebe, Michael P. Finn, “Shapes on a plane: evaluating the impact of projection distortion on spatial binning, Cartography and Geographic Information Science”, in Cartography and Geographic Information Science, →DOI",
          "text": "There is only inflation or deflation of scale (which we refer to generically as \"flation\") from whatever is designated as the standard.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Distortions of area; differences in the areas of objects on a map compared to true scale."
      ],
      "id": "en-flation-en-noun-58QLdsnf",
      "links": [
        [
          "cartography",
          "cartography"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(cartography) Distortions of area; differences in the areas of objects on a map compared to true scale."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "cartography",
        "geography",
        "natural-sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "flation"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "By analogy with inflation and deflation.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "flation (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "en:Cartography"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2016, Sarah E. Battersby, Daniel “daan” Strebe, Michael P. Finn, “Shapes on a plane: evaluating the impact of projection distortion on spatial binning, Cartography and Geographic Information Science”, in Cartography and Geographic Information Science, →DOI",
          "text": "There is only inflation or deflation of scale (which we refer to generically as \"flation\") from whatever is designated as the standard.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Distortions of area; differences in the areas of objects on a map compared to true scale."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "cartography",
          "cartography"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(cartography) Distortions of area; differences in the areas of objects on a map compared to true scale."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "cartography",
        "geography",
        "natural-sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "flation"
}