regression

Regression is the act of going backwards.

(noun)

An example of a regression is a student going back into a mode of poor study skills and failing tests.

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See regression in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

  1. a regressing, or going back; return; movement backward
  2. retrogression
  3. Astron. the slow westward shifting of the nodes of an orbit, caused by a perturbation: the complete cycle of the regression of the nodes of the moon's orbit around the earth takes about 18.6 years
  4. Biol. reversion to an earlier or simpler form, or to a general or common type
  5. Med. a gradual subsiding of a disease or its symptoms
  6. Psychoanalysis reversion to earlier or more infantile behavior patterns
  7. Statistics an estimation technique in which functions or coefficients within functions are designed to estimate values of a dependent variable

Origin: L regressio

See regression in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun
  1. Reversion; retrogression.
  2. Relapse to a less perfect or developed state.
  3. Psychology Reversion to an earlier or less mature pattern of feeling or behavior.
  4. Medicine A subsidence of the symptoms or process of a disease.
  5. Biology The return of a population to an earlier or less complex physical type in successive generations.
  6. Statistics The relationship between the mean value of a random variable and the corresponding values of one or more independent variables.
  7. Astronomy Retrograde motion of a celestial body.
  8. Geology A relative fall in sea level resulting in deposition of terrestrial strata over marine strata.

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