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| regression | |
| 1. n. An action of regressing, a return to a previous state. |  |
| 2. n. An action of travelling back in time. | |
| 3. n. (psychotherapy) A psychotherapeutic method whereby healing is facilitated by inducing the patient to act out behaviour typical of an earlier developmental stage. | |
| 4. n. (statistics) An analytic method to measure the association of one or more independent variables with a dependent variable. | |
| 5. n. (statistics) An equation using specified and associated data for two or more variables such that one variable can be estimated from the remaining variable(s). | |
| 6. n. (programming) The reappearance of a bug in a piece of software that had previously been fixed. | |
| 7. n. (medicine) The diminishing of a cellular mass like a tumor, or of an organ size. | |
