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regression

English

  1. 🔊 returning to a former state
  2. 🔊 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)
  3. 🔊 (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which you flee from reality by assuming a more infantile state
  4. 🔊 an abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely

Spanish

  1. 🔊 involución regression

Similar words

regress reversion retrogression retroversion simple regression regression toward the mean statistical regression arrested development fixation infantile fixation brownian movement freudian fixation about-face advance angular motion arrested development ascending ascent atavism axial motion backflowing backing backset backsliding