Regress vs Reversion - What's the difference?
regress | reversion |
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.
The action of reverting something.
The action of returning to a former condition or practice; reversal.
The fact of being turned the reverse way.
The action of turning something the reverse way.
(legal) The return of an estate to the donor or grantor after expiry of the grant.
(legal) An estate which has been returned in this manner.
(legal) The right of succeeding to an estate, or to another possession.
The right of succeeding to an office after the death or retirement of the holder.
The return of a genetic characteristic after a period of suppression.
A sum payable on a person's death.
As nouns the difference between regress and reversion
is that regress is the act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression while reversion is the action of reverting something.As a verb regress
is to move backwards to an earlier stage; to devolve.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.