flation
English
Etymology
By analogy with inflation and deflation.
Noun
flation (uncountable)
- (cartography) Distortions of area; differences in the areas of objects on a map compared to true scale.
- Sarah E. Battersby, Daniel “daan” Strebe & Michael P. Finn (2016): Shapes on a plane: evaluating the impact of projection distortion on spatial binning, Cartography and Geographic Information Science, DOI: 10.1080/15230406.2016.1180263
- There is only inflation or deflation of scale (which we refer to generically as “flation”) from whatever is designated as the standard.