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regression
/ɹiːˈɡɹɛʃ.ən/
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What does regression mean?
noun
- An action of regressing, a return to a previous state.
- An action of travelling mentally back in time.
- A psychotherapeutic method whereby healing is facilitated by inducing the patient to act out behaviour typical of an earlier developmental stage.
More meanings (5)
noun
- An analytic method to measure the association of one or more independent variables with a dependent variable.
- 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 performance like loaded weight, range of motion, angle, speed.
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IPA pronunciation
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Socialism, the modern synthesis of this hope, would be a regression to lower forms of evolution, for it would paralyse the greatest sources of our activity.