- the act of going back to a previous place or state; return or reversion.
- retrogradation; retrogression.
- reversion to an earlier or less advanced state or form or to a common or general type.
- the reversion to a chronologically earlier or less adapted pattern of behavior and feeling.
- a subsidence of a disease or its manifestations: a regression of symptoms.
- of, relating to, or determined by regression analysis: regression curve; regression equation.
- the adoption by an adult or adolescent of behaviour more appropriate to a child, esp as a defence mechanism to avoid anxiety
- statistics
- the analysis or measure of the association between one variable (the dependent variable) and one or more other variables (the independent variables), usually formulated in an equation in which the independent variables have parametric coefficients, which may enable future values of the dependent variable to be predicted
- (as modifer)
- the slow movement around the ecliptic of the two points at which the moon's orbit intersects the ecliptic. One complete revolution occurs about every 19 years
- the retreat of the sea from the land
- the act of regressing
