regress /rēˈgres/

1. Passage back
2. Return
3. Reversion
4. Backward movement or extension
5. Right or power of returning
6. Re-entry

1. To go back
2. To recede
3. To return to a former place or state
4. To revert
5. To move from east to west (astronomy)

1. To cause to regress or return to a former state or condition
2. To calculate the degree of association between one parameter and other parameters (statistics)

regression /ri-greshˈən/ noun

1. The act of regressing
2. Reversion
3. Return towards the mean
4. Return to an earlier stage of development, as in an adult's or adolescent's behaving like a child

regressive /ri-gresˈiv/ adjective

1. Going back
2. Reverting
3. Returning
4. (of taxation) in which the rate decreases as the amount to be taxed increases

regressˈively adverb

1. In a regressive manner
2. By return

regressˈiveness /ri-/ noun

regressivˈity /rē-/ noun

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