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regress
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Regress \Re"gress\ (r?"gr?s), n. [L. regressus, fr. regredi, regressus. See Regrede.]
The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression. ``The progress or regress of man''.
--F. Harrison.The power or liberty of passing back.
--Shak.
Regress \Re*gress"\ (r?*gr?s"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Regressed
(-gr?st"); p. pr. & vb. n. Regressing.]
To go back; to return to a former place or state.
--Sir T.
Browne.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1550s, "to return to a former state," from Latin regressus (see regress (n.)). Meaning "to move backward" is from 1823. The psychological sense of "to return to an earlier stage of life" is attested from 1926. Related: Regressed; regressing.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression. 2 The power or liberty of passing back. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To move backwards to an earlier stage; to devolve. 2 (context transitive statistics English) To perform a regression on an explanatory variable.
WordNet
n. the reasoning involved when you assume the conclusion is true and reason backward to the evidence [syn: reasoning backward]
returning to a former state [syn: regression, reversion, retrogression, retroversion]
v. go back to a statistical means
go back to a previous state; "We reverted to the old rules" [syn: revert, return, retrovert, turn back]
get worse; fall back to a previous or worse condition [syn: retrograde, retrogress] [ant: progress]
go back to bad behavior; "Those who recidivate are often minor criminals" [syn: relapse, lapse, recidivate, retrogress, fall back]
Wikipedia
Regress may refer to:
- Regress argument, a problem in epistemology concerning the justification of propositions
- Infinite regress
Usage examples of "regress".
Regress Express and set the Way Back Machine to medieval or horticultural or foraging or whatnot: they all had their chance.
The hypnotist had found that many people could be regressed not only to infancy but to the very instant of their conception.
Deeply regressed, they could do nothing but hum over and over again the mantric grammars of revivification, like insects learning to pray.
Should borrow body and form and hue And tower in torrents of floral flame, The crimson bougainvillea grew, What starlit brow uplifted to the same Majestic regress of the summering sky, What ultimate thing -- hushed, holy, throned as high Above the currents that tarnish and profane As silver summits are whose pure repose No curious eyes disclose Nor any footfalls stain, But round their beauty on azure evenings Only the oreads go on gauzy wings, Only the oreads troop with dance and song And airy beings in rainbow mists who throng Out of those wonderful worlds that lie afar Betwixt the outmost cloud and the nearest star.
They might have regressed on other occasions, so this time they had slipped quickly and eagerly into that altered state.
Peyser, but it did not look as much like the regressed Jordan Coombs as Loman expected.
He suspected they had regressed in order to toy with the girl, just for the thrill of it, and while playing with her had unintentionally given her a chance to escape.
They regressed her a few minutes and had her approach that moment again.
He knew that she dreaded what she might discover when she was regressed, but she was not afraid to make that journey.
Tolliver had regressed, sunken into his inside, or into darkest despond.
Nothing, until we come and ask you if you would like to be regressed another time.
I shall ask for volun be put into deep hypnosis and regressed if poible.
The latter occurred because as the sea regressed, large back-swamps developed when the pattern of stream drainage changed.
Sure enough, the hits started falling and Baldwin regressed to mediocrity and people stopped putting his name in the same sentence with Pedro Martinez.
Solving the lookup tableitself arbitraryis prerequisite for my locating the particle of purpose, the smallest programmed machine in that regress of programmable machines making up living tissue.