Associations to the word «Regressing»

Wiktionary

REGRESS, noun. The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression.
REGRESS, noun. The power or liberty of passing back.
REGRESS, verb. (intransitive) To move backwards to an earlier stage; to devolve.
REGRESS, verb. (transitive) (statistics) To perform a regression on an explanatory variable.

Dictionary definition

REGRESS, noun. The reasoning involved when you assume the conclusion is true and reason backward to the evidence.
REGRESS, noun. Returning to a former state.
REGRESS, verb. Go back to a statistical means.
REGRESS, verb. Go back to a previous state; "We reverted to the old rules".
REGRESS, verb. Get worse or fall back to a previous condition.
REGRESS, verb. Go back to bad behavior; "Those who recidivate are often minor criminals".

Wise words

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
Baruch Spinoza