Regress
WordNet
noun
(1) Returning to a former state
(2) The reasoning involved when you assume the conclusion is true and reason backward to the evidence
verb
(3) Go back to bad behavior
"Those who recidivate are often minor criminals"
(4) Get worse or fall back to a previous condition
(5) Go back to a previous state
"We reverted to the old rules"
(6) Go back to a statistical means
WiktionaryText
Etymology
From , pp. of < + .
Noun
- The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression.
- What is the progress or regress of man?
- The power or liberty of passing back.
Verb
- To move backwards to an earlier stage; to devolve.
- To perform a regression on an explanatory variable.
- When we regress Y on X, we use the values of variable X to predict those Y.
Etymology
regressus - back step < re- back and gressus - step.