regress
/rɪˈɡrɛs/ · reg.gres
noun
- The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression. The patient's health began to regress after the illness took hold.
- The power or liberty of passing back. The law granted the tenant the regress to return to the property at any time.
- In property law, the right of a person (such as a lessee) to return to a property. The lessee exercised their regress and returned to the property after the lease ended.
verb
- To move backwards to an earlier stage; to devolve. The company's profits began to regress as the market declined.
- To move from east to west. The sun regresses in the sky as the day progresses.
- 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.
Did you know? The concept of regression has been used in various fields, including psychology, statistics, and physics, to describe the process of moving backwards or returning to an earlier state.