Negresses vs Regresses - What's the difference?
negresses | regresses |
(regress)
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The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression.
* Frederic Harrison
The power or liberty of passing back.
* Shakespeare
To move backwards to an earlier stage; to devolve.
(statistics) To perform a regression on an explanatory variable.
As a noun negresses
is plural of negress.As a verb regresses is
third-person singular of regress.regresses
English
Verb
(head)regress
English
Noun
(-)- Its bearing on the progress or regress of man is not an inconsiderable question.
- Thou shalt have egress and regress;
Derived terms
* infinite regressVerb
(es)- When we regress Y on X, we use the values of variable X to predict those Y.
