regress

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression.

   “Its bearing on the progress or regress of man is not an inconsiderable question.”

2. isim The power or liberty of passing back.

   “Thou shalt have egresse and regresse.”

3. isim The right of a person (such as a lessee) to return to a property.
4. fiil To move backwards to an earlier stage; to devolve.
5. fiil To 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. fiil To move in the retrograde direction.
7. fiil To reduce in severity or size (as of a tumor), without reaching total remission.
8. fiil To 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. fiil To interrogate a person in a state of trance about forgotten elements of their past.

   “They regressed me, putting me under hypnosis. Then, through the hypnosis, they found out that our car was abducted right off the road and into a craft.”