0 to make something increase in size by filling it with air: --
2 to cause an object to increase in size and shape by filling it with air or gas, or (of an object) to become larger as a result of this process: --
3 to make a number or value higher or greater than it should be, or to make something seem more important than it really is: --
4 to increase the value or price of something, or to become more valuable or expensive: --
5 to make a number, price, or value higher than it should be or than is reasonable, sometimes in order to deceive people: --
Firstly to remove year-to-year variation which, by inflating experimental variation, reduces the capacity of the experiment to detect treatment effects.
After surface reconstruction of this boundary, each hemisphere was inflated, cut along the calcarine sulcus, and flattened.
Laterally, anterior margin subhorizontal; middle body inflated anteriorly, gently flattening posteriorly.
Numbers can be inflated if the count includes all of ' third sector ' organisations such as philanthropic, welfare, cultural and sporting organisations.
The unit cost estimate includes cost of training as well as direct care support staff and is inflated to a 1999/2000 price base.
To accomplish this reversal, balloons are first inflated to block the common and external carotid arteries.
First, the flyaway costs estimated in 1973 dollars could be inflated to 1992 dollars, or vice versa.
Occipital ring weakly inflated; medial part transversely rectangular with straight, well-incised occipital furrow.
