English Online Dictionary. What means regression? What does regression mean?
English
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin regressio. Equivalent to regress + -ion. The statistics sense comes from regression to the mean.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ɹɪˈɡɹɛʃ.ən/
- (US) IPA(key): /ɹiːˈɡɹɛʃ.ən/, /ɹɪˈɡɹɛʃ.ən/
- (Canada) IPA(key): /ɹəˈɡɹɛʃ.ən/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ɹəˈɡɹeʃ.ən/
Noun
regression (countable and uncountable, plural regressions)
- An action of regressing, a return to a previous state.
- An action of travelling mentally back in time.
- (psychotherapy) A psychotherapeutic method whereby healing is facilitated by inducing the patient to act out behaviour typical of an earlier developmental stage.
- (statistics) An analytic method to measure the association of one or more independent variables with a dependent variable.
- (statistics) An equation using specified and associated data for two or more variables such that one variable can be estimated from the remaining variable(s).
- (programming) The reappearance of a bug in a piece of software that had previously been fixed.
- (medicine) The diminishing of a cellular mass like a tumor, or of an organ size.
- (exercise) The making an exercise less straining to perform by manipulating the details of its performance like loaded weight, range of motion, angle, speed.
Antonyms
- progression
Hyponyms
- linear regression
Derived terms
- (sense 1): proregression
- (computing): regression testing
- (psychotherapy): regression therapy
- (statistics): regression to the mean
Translations
References
- regression on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Finnish
Noun
regression
- genitive singular of regressio