Aliasing expansion → inflation
Link to alias

Reason:

Both of these tags are the same meaning.

EDIT: The tag alias expansion -> inflation (forum #230705) has been rejected by @NotMeNotYou.

This ended up revealing a bigger mess than I anticipated.

I'm not sure what to make of this.

• List of expansion tags
• List of inflation tags

I'll revisit this soon.

Is it wrong to believe that there is a difference between expansion, which I imagine is your plain old increasing of X (say, with magic or science), and inflation, which is the filling of X with a gas to increase it?

By this description, one is more general than the other.

I prefer expansion.

Siral_Exan said:
Is it wrong to believe that there is a difference between expansion, which I imagine is your plain old increasing of X (say, with magic or science), and inflation, which is the filling of X with a gas to increase it?

No.

Expanding X: rising X's length (if one-dimensional), area (if two-dimensional) or volume (if three-dimensional) .

Inflating X: rising X's volume by filling it with matter (unespecific physical state).

O16 said:
No.

Expanding X: rising X's length (if one-dimensional), area (if two-dimensional) or volume (if three-dimensional) .

Inflating X: rising X's volume by filling it with matter (unespecific physical state).

Thank you, Overly-Complicated Explanation (Wo)Man, I'll keep this in mind when I see porn involving a tire pump or a magic wand...

Seriously, though: I knew that there are more ways to inflate or expand & what happens, I wanted to make a simple point...

The tag alias expansion -> inflation (forum #230705) has been rejected by @NotMeNotYou.