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verb
- 1. return to a former or less developed state: "art has been regressing toward adolescence for more than a generation now"
- 2. calculate the coefficient or coefficients of regression of (a variable) against or on another variable: "a model in which C and Y are regressed on the same variables"
noun
- 1. the action of returning to a former or less developed state: "the regress is a return to Puritan values"
- 2. a series of statements in which a logical procedure is continually reapplied to its own result without approaching a useful conclusion (e.g. defining something in terms of itself).
1. a. : an act or the privilege of going or coming back. b. : reentrysense 1. 2. : movement backward to a previous and especially worse or more primitive state or condition. 3. : the act of reasoning backward.
REGRESS definition: 1. to return to a previous and less advanced or worse state, condition, or way of behaving: 2. (of…. Learn more.
n. (rē′grĕs′) 1. The act of regressing, especially the returning to a previous, usually worse or less developed state. 2. The act of reasoning backward from an effect to a cause or of continually applying a process of reasoning to its own results.
to return to a previous and less advanced or worse state, condition, or way of behaving: She suffered brain damage from the car accident and regressed to the mental age of a five-year-old. He says the city has regressed in terms of participation in recycling. Compare. progress noun.
To regress is to return to a former state or condition, and not usually in a good way. It often means "relapse" or "get worse."
regress in British English. verb (rɪˈɡrɛs ) 1. (intransitive) to return or revert, as to a former place, condition, or mode of behaviour. 2. (transitive) statistics. to measure the extent to which (a dependent variable) is associated with one or more independent variables. noun (ˈriːɡrɛs ) 3. the act of regressing.
Origin of regress 1 First recorded in 1325–75; Middle English regresse (noun), from Latin regressus “a return,” noun use of past participle of regredī “to go back, return,” from re- re- + -gredī, combining form of gradī “to step, walk, go”; cf. gradient
Definition of regress verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
: reversion to an earlier mental or behavioral level. d. : a functional relationship between two or more correlated variables that is often empirically determined from data and is used especially to predict values of one variable when given values of the others. the regression of y on x is linear.
To have a tendency to approach or go back to a statistical mean. To go back; return; move backward. To undergo regression. A going or coming back. The act of regressing, especially the returning to a previous, usually worse or less developed state.
