REGRESSION

Definition of REGRESSION

  1. (noun)an abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely
  2. (noun)(psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which you flee from reality by assuming a more infantile state
  3. (noun)the relation between selected values of x and observed values of y (from which the most probable value of y can be predicted for any value of x)
  4. (noun)returning to a former state