flation
English edit
Etymology edit
By analogy with inflation and deflation.
Noun edit
flation (uncountable)
- (cartography) Distortions of area; differences in the areas of objects on a map compared to true scale.
- 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, :
- There is only inflation or deflation of scale (which we refer to generically as "flation") from whatever is designated as the standard.