regress
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
regress
- The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression.
- 1886, Frederic Harrison, The Choice of Books
- Its bearing on the progress or regress of man is not an inconsiderable question.
- 1886, Frederic Harrison, The Choice of Books
- The power or liberty of passing back.
- 1623, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor
- Thou shalt have egresse and regresse.
- 1623, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor
- In property law, the right of a person (such as a lessee) to return to a property.
regress (regresses, present participle regressing; past and past participle regressed)
- (intransitive) To move backwards to an earlier stage; to devolve.
- (intransitive, astronomy) To move from east to west.
- (transitive, statistics) To perform a regression on an explanatory variable.
- When we regress Y on X, we use the values of variable X to predict those of Y.
- French: régresser
- Portuguese: regredir, retroceder
- Russian: регресси́ровать
- Spanish: retrogradar, retroceder
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