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regression.

An action of regressing, a return to a previous state.

10 characters3 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ɹɪˈɡɹɛʃ.ən/UK/ɹiːˈɡɹɛʃ.ən/US/ɹɪˈɡɹɛʃ.ən/US/ɹəˈɡɹɛʃ.ən/Canada
  1. An action of regressing, a return to a previous state.

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  2. An action of travelling mentally back in time.

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  3. A psychotherapeutic method whereby healing is facilitated by inducing the patient to act out behaviour typical of an earlier developmental stage.

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  4. An analytic method to measure the association of one or more independent variables with a dependent variable.

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  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).

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  6. The reappearance of a bug in a piece of software that had previously been fixed.

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  7. The diminishing of a cellular mass like a tumor, or of an organ size.

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  8. 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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Where this word comes from

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

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