English Explanatory Dictionary

regression

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An action of regressing, a return to a previous state.
  2. An action of travelling mentally back in time.
  3. A psychotherapeutic method whereby healing is facilitated by inducing the patient to act out behaviour typical of an earlier developmental stage.
  4. An analytic method to measure the association of one or more independent variables with a dependent variable.
  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).
  6. The reappearance of a bug in a piece of software that had previously been fixed.
  7. The diminishing of a cellular mass like a tumor, or of an organ size.
  8. The making an exercise less straining to perform by manipulating the details of its performance like loaded weight, range of motion, angle, speed.

Pronunciation

/ɹɪˈɡɹɛʃ.ən/ /ɹiːˈɡɹɛʃ.ən/ /ɹəˈɡɹɛʃ.ən/ /ɹəˈɡɹeʃ.ən/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Jjamesryan-regression.wav /rɪˈɡre.ʃən/ /rɪˈɡrɛ.ʃən/

Word forms

regression regressions

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin regressio. Equivalent to regress + -ion. The statistics sense comes from regression to the mean.

Synonyms

deconversion restitution step back regression restoration reversion

Antonyms

progression

Derived words

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 regression therapy
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