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regress 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
Verb
/riˈgres/,
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regresses, 3rd person singular present; regressing, present participle; regressed, past tense; regressed, past participle;
  1. Return to a former or less developed state
    • - art has been regressing toward adolescence for more than a generation now
  2. Return mentally to a former stage of life or a supposed previous life, esp. through hypnosis or mental illness
    • - she claims to be able to regress to the Roman era
    • - I regressed Sylvia to early childhood
  3. Calculate the coefficient or coefficients of regression of (a variable) against or on another variable

  4. Move in a retrograde direction

Noun
  1. The action of returning to a former or less developed state

  2. A series of statements in which a logical procedure is continually reapplied to its own result without approaching a useful conclusion (e.g., defining something in terms of itself)

  1. go back to a statistical means
  2. the reasoning involved when you assume the conclusion is true and reason backward to the evidence
  3. regression: returning to a former state
  4. revert: go back to a previous state; "We reverted to the old rules"
  5. get worse or fall back to a previous condition
  6. relapse: go back to bad behavior; "Those who recidivate are often minor criminals"
  7. The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression; The power or liberty of passing back; To move backwards to an earlier stage; to devolve; To perform a regression on an explanatory variable
  8. (regressed) That has been subject to regression