Reduction vs Regress - What's the difference?
reduction | regress |
The act, process, or result of reducing.
The amount or rate by which something is reduced, e.g. in price.
(chemistry) A reaction in which electrons are gained and valence is reduced; often by the removal of oxygen or the addition of hydrogen.
(cooking) The process of rapidly boiling a sauce to concentrate it.
(mathematics) The rewriting of an expression into a simpler form.
(computability theory) a transformation of one problem into another problem, such as mapping reduction or polynomial reduction.
(music) An arrangement for a far smaller number of parties, e.g. a keyboard solo based on a full opera.
(philosophy, phenomenology) A philosophical procedure intended to reveal the objects of consciousness as pure phenomena. (See phenomenological reduction.)
(medicine) A medical procedure to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.
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 nouns the difference between reduction and regress
is that reduction is reduction while regress is the act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression.As a verb regress is
to move backwards to an earlier stage; to devolve.reduction
English
Noun
(en noun)- A 5% reduction in robberies
Antonyms
* elevation * expansion * increase * promotion * (chemistry): oxidationAnagrams
* introduceregress
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.