| 单词 | regression |
| 释义 | regression (once / 23452 pages) 1n 2n When you experience regression, you "go back" in some way. If you've been trying to break your sugar habit but one day eat several pieces of cake, that's regression. Remember that the suffix -ion is added to a verb to make it into a noun, making regression the noun form of the verb "to regress." We can find regression, meaning "the act of going back," as far back as the late 1300s, from the Latin regressus, which means "a return." When you see all your old friends (and enemies) at a school reunion, you might experience regression and start acting like your younger self. WORD FAMILYregression: regressions+/regress: regressed, regresses, regressing, regression, regressive/regressive: regressively USAGE EXAMPLESBut when that continuity manifests itself in so many losses, with hefty signs of regression, it’s time to move on. Washington Times(Dec 19, 2016) The decline likely reflected a natural regression after home construction soared 27 percent to 1.34 million homes in October, the highest level since July 2007. Seattle Times(Dec 16, 2016) But we’ve seen this too many times this year — Seahawks’ wins that seemingly signal a turning point, only to be followed by regression and backsliding. Seattle Times(Dec 15, 2016) 1 1n returning to a former state Syn|Hyper regress, retrogression, retroversion, reversion reversal a change from one state to the opposite state 2n (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which you flee from reality by assuming a more infantile state Hyper defence, defence mechanism, defence reaction, defense, defense mechanism, defense reaction (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires 3n an abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely 2Syn|Hyper arrested development, fixation, infantile fixation abnormalcy, abnormality an abnormal physical condition resulting from defective genes or developmental deficiencies n 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) Syn|Hypo|Hyper regression toward the mean, simple regression, statistical regression linear regression, rectilinear regression the relation between variables when the regression equation is linear: e.g., y = ax + b curvilinear regressionthe relation between variables when the regression equation is nonlinear (quadratic or higher order) statistical method, statistical procedure a method of analyzing or representing statistical data; a procedure for calculating a statistic |
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