regression

/ษนษ™หˆษกษนษ›สƒษ™n/
noun
  1. 1

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

  2. 2

    An action of travelling mentally back in time.

  3. 3

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

  4. 4

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

  5. 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).

  6. 6

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

  7. 7

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

  8. 8

    (exercise) 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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