regress vs regression

regress

noun
  • The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression. 

  • In property law, the right of a person (such as a lessee) to return to a property. 

  • The power or liberty of passing back. 

verb
  • To move backwards to an earlier stage; to devolve. 

  • To move from east to west. 

  • To perform a regression on an explanatory variable. 

  • To interrogate a person in a state of trance about forgotten elements of their past. 

regression

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

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

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

  • An equation using specified and associated data for two or more variables such that one variable can be estimated from the remaining variable(s). 

  • The making an exercise less straining to perform by manipulating the details of its performance like loaded weight, range of motion, angle, speed. 

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

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

  • An action of travelling mentally back in time. 

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