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   regress

   verb

   • 1. return to a former or less developed state: "they would not regress to pre-technological tribalism"
   • ▪ return mentally to a former stage of life or a supposed previous life, especially through hypnosis: "she claims to be able to regress to the Roman era"
   • 2. calculate the coefficient or coefficients of regression of (a variable) against or on another variable: "a model in which C and Y are regressed on the same variables"
   • 3. move in a retrograde direction: "a planet regularly regresses"

   noun

   • 1. the action of returning to a former or less developed state: "the regress is a return to Puritan values"
   • 2. a series of statements in which a logical procedure is continually reapplied to its own result without approaching a useful conclusion (e.g. defining something in terms of itself).

   Word Origin late Middle English (as a noun): from Latin regressus, from regredi ‘go back, return’, from re- ‘back’ + gradi ‘to walk’.

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