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Regress

Noun

Définitions

1.NounThe act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression.
2.NounThe power or liberty of passing back.
3.NounThe right of a person (such as a lessee) to return to a property.
4.VerbTo move backwards to an earlier stage; to devolve.
"Your nightmares stopped when you were eight years old, but after the house burned down, you regressed."
5.VerbTo re-develop behavior one had previously grown out of, particularly a behavior left behind in childhood.
"Your nightmares stopped when you were eight years old, but after the house burned down, you regressed."
6.VerbTo move in the retrograde direction.(clarification of this definition is needed)
7.VerbTo reduce in severity or size (as of a tumor), without reaching total remission.
8.VerbTo perform a regression on an explanatory variable.
"When we regress Y on X, we use the values of variable X to predict those of Y."
9.VerbTo interrogate a person in a state of trance about forgotten elements of their past.
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