regression
nounEtymology
Learned borrowing from Latin regressio. Equivalent to regress + -ion. The statistics sense comes from regression to the mean.
- learned borrowing from regressio
Definitions
An action of regressing, a return to a previous state.
- Few of these groups or communities that are classed as "savage" show no traces of regression from a more advanced cultural stage.
An action of travelling mentally back in time.
- 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.
A psychotherapeutic method whereby healing is facilitated by inducing the patient to act…
A psychotherapeutic method whereby healing is facilitated by inducing the patient to act out behaviour typical of an earlier developmental stage.
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An analytic method to measure the association of one or more independent variables with a…
An analytic method to measure the association of one or more independent variables with a dependent variable.
- A social norm hypothesis [of crime] that focuses on the social meaning of order cannot be tested by a single time frame regression of neighborhood disorder and crime. That is simply asking too much of the data.
An equation using specified and associated data for two or more variables such that one…
An equation using specified and associated data for two or more variables such that one variable can be estimated from the remaining variable(s).
The reappearance of a bug in a piece of software that had previously been fixed.
The diminishing of a cellular mass like a tumor, or of an organ size.
The making an exercise less straining to perform by manipulating the details of its…
The making an exercise less straining to perform by manipulating the details of its performance like loaded weight, range of motion, angle, speed.
The neighborhood
- antonymprogression
Derived
age regression, angioregression, autoregression, regression testing, deregression, Down syndrome regression disorder, kitchen sink regression, metaregression, neuroregression, nonregression, regressional, regressionary, regressionism, regressionist, regression toward the mean, regression tree, sleep regression, regression to the mean, vasoregression, proregression
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for regression. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA