regression
An action of regressing, a return to a previous stateAn action of regressing, a return to a previous state.
» It is not progress but regression.
Это не продвижение вперёд, а ухудшение.
Meaning
8 senses(countable, uncountable)An action of regressing, a return to a previous state.
Rückbildung, Rückfall, Rückgang
регре́ссияregréssija, регре́ссregréss, возвраще́ниеvozvraščénije
(countable, uncountable)An action of travelling mentally back in time.
(countable, uncountable)A psychotherapeutic method whereby healing is facilitated by inducing the patient to act out behaviour typical of an earlier developmental stage.
(countable, uncountable)An analytic method to measure the association of one or more independent variables with a dependent variable.
(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).
(countable, uncountable)The reappearance of a bug in a piece of software that had previously been fixed.
(countable, uncountable)The diminishing of a cellular mass like a tumor, or of an organ size.
(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.
- returning to a former state
- the relation between selected values of x and observed values of y (from which the most probable value of y can be predicted for any value of x)
- (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which you flee from reality by assuming a more infantile state
- an abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely
Examples
9 sentencesIt is not progress but regression.
ruЭто не продвижение вперёд, а ухудшение.
The linear regression showed that race was tied to mental health outcomes.
Support vector machines are supervised learning models used for classification and regression analysis.
deSupportvektormaschinen sind Modelle des überwachten Lernens, die für Klassifikations- und Regressionsanalysen verwendet werden.
The influence of covariates on the primary outcome variable was explored using logistic regression.
Stagnation means regression.
ruЗастой ведёт к упадку.
deStillstand bedeutet Rückschritt.
Translations
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Origin
Learned borrowing from Latin regressio. Equivalent to regress + -ion.Learned borrowing from Latin regressio. Equivalent to regress + -ion.
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Forms
plural: regressions| Singular | regression |
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Synonyms
15 synonyms- returning to a former state:regressreversionretrogressionretroversion
- the relation between selected values of x and observed values of y (from which the most probable value of y can be predicted for any value of x):simple regressionregression toward the meanstatistical regression
- an abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely:arrested developmentfixationinfantile fixation
Antonyms
1 antonymsWord family
18 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable