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Terms vs Regresses - What's the difference?

terms | regresses |

As a noun terms

is .

As a verb regresses is

.

terms

English

Noun

(head)

    • Statistics

    * ----

    regresses

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (regress)
    • ----

    regress

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression.
  • * Frederic Harrison
    • Its bearing on the progress or regress of man is not an inconsiderable question.
  • The power or liberty of passing back.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Thou shalt have egress and regress;

    Derived terms

    * infinite regress

    Verb

    (es)
  • To move backwards to an earlier stage; to devolve.
  • (statistics) To perform a regression on an explanatory variable.
    • When we regress Y on X, we use the values of variable X to predict those Y.

    Synonyms

    * backslide

    Antonyms

    * proceed * progress

    Related terms

    * regression * regressive

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