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regression en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ɹɪˈɡɹɛʃ.ən/ (US)
  • /rɪˈɡre.ʃən/ (Bangladesh, India)
  • /rɪˈɡrɛ.ʃən/ (Bangladesh, India)
  • /ɹiːˈɡɹɛʃ.ən/ (US)
  • audio Brisbane
  • /ɹəˈɡɹɛʃ.ən/ (Canada)
  • /ɹɪˈɡɹɛʃ.ən/ (UK)
  • /ɹəˈɡɹeʃ.ən/ (Australia)

Etymology

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

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) 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. 1899, Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class […] , New York: Macmillan, →OCLC:
  2. (countable, uncountable) 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. 2001, Carol DeCuffa, In Search of Home: An Essential Guide for the Evolving Soul:
  3. (countable, qualifier:psychotherapy, uncountable) A psychotherapeutic method whereby healing is facilitated by inducing the patient to act out behaviour typical of an earlier developmental stage.
  4. (countable, uncountable) An analytic method to measure the association of one or more independent variables with a dependent variable.
    • 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. (Can we date this quote?), (Please provide the book title or journal name):
    • 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. 2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, chapter 4, in Illusion of Order:
  5. (countable, uncountable) 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. (countable, uncountable) The reappearance of a bug in a piece of software that had previously been fixed.
  7. (countable, uncountable) The diminishing of a cellular mass like a tumor, or of an organ size.
  8. (countable, uncountable) The making an exercise less straining to perform by manipulating the details of its performance like loaded weight, range of motion, angle, speed.

Forms

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Antonyms

progression

Deriveds

angioregression · regressionary · nonregression · deregression · sleep regression · regressionist · proregression (sense 1) · autoregression · regression tree · regression testing · regression to the mean · kitchen sink regression · regression therapy (psychotherapy) · age regression · pet regression · Down syndrome regression disorder · regressional · regressionism · vasoregression · neuroregression · metaregression · regression toward the mean

Descendants

regressie

Synonyms

deconversion · step back · restitution · reversion · deconversion · restitution · step back · regression · restoration

Translations (68)

fi regressio (action of travelling mentally back in time) · pt regressão (statistics: analytic method) · cmn 迴歸 /回归 (statistics: analytic method) · el απόκλιση (statistics: analytic method) · pl cofnięcie (return to a previous state) · fi takauma (action of travelling mentally back in time) · kk регрессия (statistics: analytic method) · id regresi (statistics: analytic method) · ga cúlú (statistics: analytic method) · tr gerileme (medicine: diminishing of a cellular mass) · fr régression (statistics: analytic method) · id regresi (statistics: equation) · sh nazadovanje (return to a previous state) · it regressione (return to a previous state) · sh регресија (return to a previous state) · fi regressio (medicine: diminishing of a cellular mass) · cmn 回歸 /回归 (return to a previous state) · bg регресия (statistics: analytic method) · pt regressão (return to a previous state) · ckb پاشۆچوون (statistics: analytic method) · id regresi (action of travelling mentally back in time) · fi regressio (statistics: analytic method) · no regresjon (statistics: analytic method) · hu regresszió (statistics: analytic method) · ru регре́ссия (return to a previous state) · tr gerileme (action of travelling mentally back in time) · es regresión (return to a previous state) · bg връщане назад (return to a previous state) · cmn 迴歸 /回归 (return to a previous state) · fr régression (return to a previous state) · is aðhvarf (statistics: analytic method) · sh regresija (return to a previous state) · fi taantuminen (return to a previous state) · tr gerileme (return to a previous state) · es retroceso (return to a previous state) · bg ретроспекция (action of travelling mentally back in time) · es regresión (statistics: analytic method) · tl balitugnay (statistics: analytic method) · el υποχώρηση (return to a previous state) · ga aischéimniú (return to a previous state) · mi tauhekenga (return to a previous state) · el οπισθοδρόμηση (return to a previous state) · it regressione (statistics: analytic method) · ja 回帰 (statistics: analytic method) · de Rückfall (return to a previous state) · ko 회귀 (return to a previous state) · el υποστροφή (return to a previous state) · de Rückgang (return to a previous state) · mk уназадување (return to a previous state) · pl regresja (return to a previous state) · de Rückschritt (return to a previous state) · ckb پاشۆچوون (return to a previous state) · pl regres (return to a previous state) · sh регресија (statistics: analytic method) · fi regressioanalyysi (statistics: analytic method) · ru возвраще́ние (return to a previous state) · pl uwstecznienie (return to a previous state) · cmn 回歸 /回归 (statistics: analytic method) · sh regresija (statistics: analytic method) · fi regressioyhtälö (statistics: equation) · ru регре́сс (return to a previous state) · de Rückbildung (return to a previous state) · no regresjon (return to a previous state) · ja 回帰 (return to a previous state) · fi regressio (psychotherapy: method of healing) · nl teruggang (return to a previous state) · fi regressio (return to a previous state) · mk назадување (return to a previous state)