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REGRESSION

Definition:

1. [noun] an abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely
   Synonyms: arrested development, fixation, infantile fixation
   
   
2. [noun] (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which you flee from reality by assuming a more infantile state
   
   
3. [noun] the relation between selected values of x and observed values of y (from which the most probable value of y can be predicted for any value of x)
   Synonyms: simple toward the mean, statistical
   
   
4. [noun] returning to a former state
   Synonyms: regress, reversion, retrogression, retroversion
   
   

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Related Words:

• linear regression, rectilinear regression
• curvilinear regression

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