Regress

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  • intransitive verb. To return to a previous, usually worse or less developed state.
  • intransitive verb. To have a tendency to approach or go back to a statistical mean.
  • intransitive verb. To move backward or away from a reference point; recede.
  • intransitive verb. To induce a state of regression in.
  • noun. The act of regressing, especially the returning to a previous, usually worse or less developed state.
  • noun. The act of reasoning backward from an effect to a cause or of continually applying a process of reasoning to its own results.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To go back; return to a former place or state.
  • In astronomy, to move from east toward west.
  • noun. Passage back; return.
  • noun. The power or liberty of returning or passing back.
  • noun. In Scots law, reëntry.
  • noun. In canon law. See access, 7.
  • noun. In logic, the passage in thought from effect to cause.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression. “The progress or regress of man”.
  • noun. The power or liberty of passing back.
  • intransitive verb. To go back; to return to a former place or state.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression.
  • noun. The power or liberty of passing back.
  • verb. To move backwards to an earlier stage; to devolve.
  • verb. To perform a regression on an explanatory variable.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the reasoning involved when you assume the conclusion is true and reason backward to the evidence
  • verb. go back to a statistical means
  • verb. go back to bad behavior
  • noun. returning to a former state
  • verb. get worse or fall back to a previous condition
  • verb. go back to a previous state
  • Word Usage
    "The problem with an infinite regress is that it is a fallacious attempt to make an unsound argument support itself."
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