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English

Etymology

Pronunciation

(Canada) IPA: /rəˈɡrɛʃən/

Noun

An action of regressing, a return to a previous state.
*1899: Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class
*:Few of these groups or communities that are classed as "savage" show no traces of regression from a more advanced cultural stage.
A psychotherapeutic method whereby healing is facilitated by inducing the patient to act out behaviour typical of a an earlier developmental stage.
An analytic method to measure the relationship between two or more variables.
An equation using specified and associated data for two or more variables such that one variable can be estimated from the remaining variable(s).

Antonyms

progression

Derived terms

Translations

Finnish: taantuminen, regressio
Japanese: 回帰 (kaiki)

Norwegian: {{t-|no|regresjon|m}}

Finnish:
Japanese: 回帰 (kaiki)

Norwegian: {{t-|no|regresjon|m}}

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Finnish

Noun

regression

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Regression \Re*gres"sion\ (r?*gr?sh"?n), n. [L. regressio: cf.
F. r['e]gression.]
The act of passing back or returning; retrogression;
retrogradation. --Sir T. Browne.
[1913 Webster]

Edge of regression (of a surface) (Geom.), the line along
which a surface turns back upon itself; -- called also a
cuspidal edge.

Regression point (Geom.), a cusp.
[1913 Webster]

WordNet regression
n 1: an abnormal state in which development has stopped
prematurely [syn: arrested development, fixation, {infantile
fixation}]
2: (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which you flee from
reality by assuming a more infantile state
3: the relation between selected values of x and observed
values of y (from which the most probable value of y can
be predicted for any value of x) [syn: simple regression,
regression toward the mean, statistical regression]
4: returning to a former state [syn: regress, reversion, retrogression,
retroversion]

Moby Dictionary
Brownian movement , Freudian fixation , about-face , advance ,
angular motion , arrested development , ascending , ascent , atavism ,
axial motion , backflowing , backing , backset , backsliding ,
backward deviation , backward motion , career , climbing , comedown ,
course , current , debasement , decadence , decadency , declension ,
declination , decline , deformation , degeneracy , degenerateness ,
degeneration , degradation , demotion , depravation , depravedness ,
depreciation , derogation , descending , descent , deterioration ,
devolution , disenchantment , downtrend , downturn , downward mobility ,
downward motion , downward trend , drift , driftage , drop , dying , ebb ,
ebbing , effeteness , fading , failing , failure , failure of nerve ,
fall , falling back , falling-off , father fixation , fixation , flight ,
flip-flop , flow , flux , forward motion , infantile fixation ,
involution , lapse , libido fixation , loss of tone , mother fixation ,
mounting , oblique motion , ongoing , onrush , parent fixation ,
passage , plunging , pregenital fixation , progress , radial motion ,
random motion , recidivation , recidivism , reclamation , reconversion ,
recrudescence , recurrence , reflowing , refluence , reflux , regress ,
rehabilitation , reinstatement , relapse , renewal , restitution ,
restoration , retreat to immaturity , retrocession , retrogradation ,
retrogression , retroversion , return , returning , reversal , reverse ,
reversion , reverting , revulsion , rising , run , rush , set , setback ,
sideward motion , sinking , slippage , slipping back , slump , soaring ,
sternway , stream , subsiding , throwback , traject , trajet , trend ,
turn , turnabout , upward motion , wane

FOLDOC regression

1. A mathematical method where an {empirical
function} is derived from a set of experimental data.

2. regression testing.

(1995-03-14)