"flation" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "By analogy with inflation and deflation.",
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      "expansion": "flation (uncountable)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "name": "Cartography",
          "orig": "en:Cartography",
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          "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",
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          "cartography",
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(cartography) Distortions of area; differences in the areas of objects on a map compared to true scale."
      ],
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        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "cartography",
        "geography",
        "natural-sciences"
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  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfleɪʃən/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-eɪʃən"
    }
  ],
  "word": "flation"
}

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  "etymology_text": "By analogy with inflation and deflation.",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
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        "Rhymes:English/eɪʃən",
        "Rhymes:English/eɪʃən/2 syllables",
        "en:Cartography"
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          "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"
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfleɪʃən/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-eɪʃən"
    }
  ],
  "word": "flation"
}