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regress
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Definitions ofregress
1noun
- The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression.
- The power or liberty of passing back.
- In property law, the right of a person (such as a lessee) to return to a property.
1verb
- To move backwards to an earlier stage; to devolve.
- To move from east to west.
- To perform a regression on an explanatory variable.
Example: "When we regress Y on X, we use the values of variable X to predict those of Y."
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