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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Regression \Re*gres"sion\ (r?*gr?sh"?n), n. [L. regressio: cf.
F. r['e]gression.]
The act of passing back or returning; retrogression;
retrogradation.
--Sir T. Browne.
Edge of regression (of a surface) (Geom.), the line along which a surface turns back upon itself; -- called also a cuspidal edge.
Regression point (Geom.), a cusp.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., from Latin regressionem (nominative regressio) "a going back, a return," noun of action from past participle stem of regredi (see regress (n.)).
Wiktionary
n. 1 An action of regressing, a return to a previous state. 2 (context psychotherapy English) A psychotherapeutic method whereby healing is facilitated by inducing the patient to act out behaviour typical of an earlier developmental stage. 3 (context statistics English) An analytic method to measure the association of one or more independent variables with a dependent variable. 4 (context statistics English) An equation using specified and associated data for two or more variables such that one variable can be estimated from the remaining variable(s). 5 (context programming English) The reappearance of a bug in a piece of software that had previously been fixed.
WordNet
n. an abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely [syn: arrested development, fixation, infantile fixation]
(psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which you flee from reality by assuming a more infantile state
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: simple regression, regression toward the mean, statistical regression]
returning to a former state [syn: regress, reversion, retrogression, retroversion]
Wikipedia
Regression or regressions may refer to:
Regression , according to psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, is a defense mechanism leading to the temporary or long-term reversion of the ego to an earlier stage of development rather than handling unacceptable impulses in a more adult way. The defense mechanism of regression, in psychoanalytic theory, occurs when an individual's personality reverts to an earlier stage of development, adopting more childish mannerisms. Psychiatrist Joel Gold suggests that careful use of "ARISE" (Adaptive Regression in the service of the Ego) can sometimes yield creative benefits. To the extent that one is handling thoughts and impulses less like an adult, ARISE involves play, appreciation and primitive pleasures, and imagination.
Regression in medicine is a characteristic of diseases to show lighter symptoms without completely disappearing. At a later point, symptoms may return. These symptoms are then called recidive.
Regression is a 2015 Canadian-Spanish-American psychological thriller horror film directed, produced and written by Alejandro Amenábar. The film stars Ethan Hawke and Emma Watson with David Thewlis, Lothaire Bluteau, Dale Dickey, David Dencik, Peter MacNeill, Devon Bostick and Aaron Ashmore.
The film had its world premiere at the San Sebastián International Film Festival on September 18, 2015.
Usage examples of "regression".
To the extent that either attempts to escape the flatland interlocking order at all, they do so by regression to agrarian alchemy, magico-mythic animism, astrology, horticultural planting mythology, or foraging human-nature indissociationall of which is based, of course, on the new physics.
Oblomovkan childhood involves a psychological regression to a carefree, presexual existence where libidinal pleasure is derived primarily, if not exclusively, from the ingestion of food and drink.
This is why the Church, beginning around the sixteenth century, was involved in a war on two fronts: fighting regression to magic, and fighting supersession by science.
Shockingly it seemed as though her animalistic regression momentarily frightened the dogs, and they each backed off long enough to let Rayven gain her feet.
For you, it could be astrology, numerology, yoga, dance, dowsing, meditation, astral projection, hypnotic regression, dreamwork, breathwork or religion.
Genuine mystical or contemplative experiences, for example, are seen as a regression or throwback to infantile states of narcissism, oceanic adualism, indissociation, and even primitive autism.
To the extent that either attempts to escape the flatland interlocking order at all, they do so by regression to agrarian alchemy, magico-mythic animism, astrology, horticultural planting mythology, or foraging human-nature indissociationall of which is based, of course, on the new physics.
These theorists, as we will see in detail, end up unknowingly recommending pure regression as our salvation.
A week in Vegas is like stumbling into a Time Warp, a regression to the late fifties.
Thus the cure: regression in service of a higher reintegrationa regression that allows evolution to move forward more harmoniously by healing and wholing a previously alienated holon.
I understand the degrees of progression and regression as they relate to random variables in bifurcations of a triple fork.
And in this confusionthis pre/trans confusionall true critical edge was lost, because the cure for the actual dissociations that had indeed beset modernity was mistakenly thought to be a regression to a state prior to all differentiation whatsoever.
The documented instances of technological regression on the Australian mainland, and the example of Tasmania, suggest that the limited repertoire of Native Australians compared with that of peoples of other continents may stem in part from the effects of isolation and population size on the development and maintenance of technology—like those effects on Tasmania, but less extreme.
This elicits the same emotive intensity as in regression or in Mack's abductee hypnosis.
If pipes were substitutes for feeding bottles at moments of regression into infancy, then a B-stick was a kind of teething ring.