[BelenusMordred]

It's certainly the meaning in some contexts. The problem with the word is it is widely used for consumer price inflation. When talking about asset and monetary inflation people still shorten it to simply "inflation"

Growth in money supply is the proper way to compare to different monetary systems like bitcoin and the dollar.

> to avoid deflation

Last I looked nearly every person on Earth wants price deflation in food/electricity/cars/iphones/etc. The onus on you here to show why that is such a bad thing for society?