Regress meaning

rĭ-grĕs'
A going or coming back.
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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.

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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.

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To return to a previous, usually worse or less developed state.

When I left the country, my ability to speak the language regressed.

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To have a tendency to approach or go back to a statistical mean.
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To move backward or away from a reference point; recede.

The seas regressed as the glaciers grew larger.

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To induce a state of regression in.

Techniques to regress a patient under hypnosis.

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The act of regressing, especially the returning to a previous, usually worse or less developed state.
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The act of reasoning backward from an effect to a cause or of continually applying a process of reasoning to its own results.
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The right or privilege of this.
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Backward movement; retrogression.
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To go back; return; move backward.
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To undergo regression.
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To have a tendency to approach or go back to a statistical mean.
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To induce a state of regression in.

Techniques to regress a patient under hypnosis.

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The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression.
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The power or liberty of passing back.

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(intransitive) To move backwards to an earlier stage; to devolve.
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(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.

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Origin of regress

  • Latin regredī regress- re- re- gradī to go ghredh- in Indo-European roots
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • (verb) From Latin regressus, past participle of regredi (“to go back"), from re- (“back") + gradi (“to go").
    From Wiktionary

Regress Sentence Examples

  • Even so the inference to the a priori ground of its necessity is, it has been often pointed out, subject to the limitation inherent in any process of reduction, in any regress, that is, from conditionate to condition, viz.

  • Once applied to the facts at all, it would drive us beyond the first antecedent or term of antecedents of volition to a still further cause or ground - in fact, land us in an infinite regress of causes.

  • If, then, there is objective truth at all, the existence of real facts must be made known to us otherwise than through the logical faculty of thought; and, as the regress from conclusion to premises must depend upon something not itself capable of logical grounding, mediate thought implies the consciousness of immediate truth.

  • The former should be regarded as asserting that the whole is, not temporally, but logically, subsequent to the part, and that therefore there is an infinite regress in the notion of a whole which is infinitely divisible - a view which at any rate demands a serious refutation.

  • If we reject the infinite regress and the circle in proof (circulus in probando) which resolves itself ultimately into proving A by B and B by A, 7 we are confronted by the need for principles of two kinds, those which condition all search scientific for truth, and those which are the peculiar or proper principles.

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