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regress
- return to a former or less developed state；return mentally to a former stage of life or a supposed previous life, especially through hypnosis
- the action of returning to a former or less developed state；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).
verb: regress, 3rd person present: regresses, gerund or present participle: regressing, past tense: regressed, past participle: regressed
noun: regress, plural noun: regresses
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動詞
- 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 I regressed Sylvia to early childhood
- 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
名詞
- 1. the action of returning to a former or less developed state the regress is a return to Puritan values a regress to the nursery
- 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).
- a sequence of reasoning or justification which can never come to an end.
Oxford American Dictionary
- a sequence of reasoning or justification which can never come to an end.
Oxford Dictionary
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- return to a former or less developed state: art has been regressing toward adolescence for more than a generation now
- the action of returning to a former or less developed state: the regress is a return to Puritan values a regress to the nursery
Oxford American Dictionary
