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Webster 1913 Edition
Regression
Re-gres′sion
(r?-gr?sh′?n)
, Noun.
[L.
regressio
: cf. F. régression
.] The act of passing back or returning; retrogression; retrogradation.
Sir T. Browne.
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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Regression
REGRES'SION
,Noun.
Definition 2024
regression
regression
See also: régression
English
Noun
regression (countable and uncountable, plural regressions)
- 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.
- 1899: Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class
- An action of travelling back in time.
- 2001, Carol DeCuffa, In Search of Home: An Essential Guide for the Evolving Soul
- I have done past life regressions on my own through self-hypnosis techniques that I learned in Brian Weiss's book Many Lives, Many Masters as well as with past life regression tapes.
- 2001, Carol DeCuffa, In Search of Home: An Essential Guide for the Evolving Soul
- (psychotherapy) A psychotherapeutic method whereby healing is facilitated by inducing the patient to act out behaviour typical of an earlier developmental stage.
- (statistics) An analytic method to measure the association of one or more independent variables with a dependent variable.
- (statistics) An equation using specified and associated data for two or more variables such that one variable can be estimated from the remaining variable(s).
- (programming) The reappearance of a bug in a piece of software that had previously been fixed.
- (medicine) The diminishing of a cellular mass like a tumor, or of an organ size.
Antonyms
Hyponyms
- linear regression
Related terms
- (computing): regression testing
- (psychotherapy): regression therapy
- (statistics): regression to the mean
Translations
an action of regressing, a return to a previous state
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an analytic method to measure the relationship between two variables
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References
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regression on Wikipedia.Wikipedia