Regresses vs Regressed - What's the difference?
regresses | regressed |
(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 verbs the difference between regresses and regressed
is that regresses is while regressed is (regress).As an adjective regressed is
that has been subject to regression.regresses
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Verb
(head)regress
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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.
