Regress definition
A going or coming back.
noun
To return to a previous, usually worse or less developed state.
When I left the country, my ability to speak the language regressed.
verb
Regress is defined as the act of going back to a worse state.
An example of a regress is a return to a previously-held job that paid less.
noun
Regress means to go back to a worse or less developed state.
An example of to regress is to return to the habit of smoking cigarettes.
verb
To have a tendency to approach or go back to a statistical mean.
verb
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To move backward or away from a reference point; recede.
The seas regressed as the glaciers grew larger.
verb
To induce a state of regression in.
Techniques to regress a patient under hypnosis.
verb
The act of regressing, especially the returning to a previous, usually worse or less developed state.
noun
The act of reasoning backward from an effect to a cause or of continually applying a process of reasoning to its own results.
noun
The right or privilege of this.
noun
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Backward movement; retrogression.
noun
To go back; return; move backward.
verb
To undergo regression.
verb
To have a tendency to approach or go back to a statistical mean.
verb
(pyschology) To induce a state of regression in.
Techniques to regress a patient under hypnosis.
verb
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The power or liberty of passing back.
noun
(statistics) To perform a regression on an explanatory variable.
When we regress Y on X, we use the values of variable X to predict those Y.
verb