Immigration vs Regression - What's the difference?
immigration | regression |
The act of immigrating; the passing or coming into a country for the purpose of permanent residence.
An action of regressing, a return to a previous state.
* 1899: Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class
(psychotherapy) A psychotherapeutic method whereby healing is facilitated by inducing the patient to act out behaviour typical of an earlier developmental stage.
(statistics) An analytic method to measure the association of one or more independent variables with a dependent variable.
(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).
(programming) The reappearance of a bug in a piece of software that had previously been fixed.
As nouns the difference between immigration and regression
is that immigration is the act of immigrating; the passing or coming into a country for the purpose of permanent residence while regression is an action of regressing, a return to a previous state.immigration
English
(wikipedia immigration)Noun
(en noun)regression
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(wikipedia regression)Noun
(en noun)- Few of these groups or communities that are classed as "savage" show no traces of regression from a more advanced cultural stage.