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NFL Championship: The game held from 1933 through 1965 to decide the champion of professional football; renamed the Super Bowl in 1966.

Inflexible Expenses: Securities such as bonds or notes that guarantee a return higher than the rate of inflation if the security is held to maturity.

National Football League (NFL): The largest professional American football league, with 32 teams.

Inflective: An inflective or inflected language is one like Latin, German, or Anglo-Saxon, in which special endings called declensions appear on the end of noun-stems to indicate case. Contrast with ana . . . View Full Definition

NFL Europa: The NFL's former 6-team European spring league, which folded after its 2007 season.

Inflection: Small alteration of the pitch by a microtonal interval. See also blue note.

Inflation-Protected Security (TIPS): US Treasury inflation-protected securities (TIPS) adust the principal twice a year to reflect inflation or deflation measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI). The interest rate is fixed an . . . View Full Definition

Inflected: An inflective or inflected language is one like Latin, German, or Anglo-Saxon, in which special endings called declensions appear on the end of noun-stems to indicate case. Contrast with ana . . . View Full Definition

Inflected Infinitive: In Old English, an infinitive with declension endings attached and used as a noun--a source of much frustration to graduate students trying to translate Anglo-Saxon texts.

Personal Inflation Rate: The inflation rate as it affects a specific individual.