regression — English Dictionary

Noun

1. An action of regressing, a return to a previous state.

   Usage

   • Countable
   • Uncountable

   Synonyms

   deconversionrestitutionstep back

   Examples

   Few of these groups or communities that are classed as "savage" show no traces of regression from a more advanced cultural stage.

2. An action of travelling mentally back in time.

   Usage

   • Countable
   • Uncountable

   Examples

   More examples (1)

   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.

3. A psychotherapeutic method whereby healing is facilitated by inducing the patient to act out behaviour typical of an earlier developmental stage.

   Usage

   • Countable
   • Uncountable

4. An analytic method to measure the association of one or more independent variables with a dependent variable.

   Usage

   • Countable
   • Uncountable

   Examples

   More examples (2)

   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.

   Supervised learning problems are categorized into "regression" and "classification" problems. In a regression problem, we are trying to predict results within a continuous output, meaning that we are trying to map input variables to some continuous function.

5. An equation using specified and associated data for two or more variables such that one variable can be estimated from the remaining variable(s).

   Usage

   • Countable
   • Uncountable

6. The reappearance of a bug in a piece of software that had previously been fixed.

   Usage

   • Countable
   • Uncountable

7. The diminishing of a cellular mass like a tumor, or of an organ size.

   Usage

   • Countable
   • Uncountable

8. The making an exercise less straining to perform by manipulating the details of its performance like loaded weight, range of motion, angle, speed.

   Usage

   • Countable
   • Uncountable

Noun

1. an abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely

   Synonyms

   arrested developmentfixationinfantile fixation

   Broader terms

   abnormalityabnormalcy

2. (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which you flee from reality by assuming a more infantile state

   Broader terms

   defense mechanismdefense reactiondefence mechanismdefence reactiondefensedefence

3. the relation between selected values of x and observed values of y (from which the most probable value of y can be predicted for any value of x)

   Synonyms

   simple regressionregression toward the meanstatistical regression

   Broader terms

   statistical methodstatistical procedure

4. returning to a former state

   Synonyms

   regressreversionretrogressionretroversion

   Broader terms

   reversal