Associations to the word «Regress»

Wiktionary

REGRESS, noun. The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression.
REGRESS, noun. The power or liberty of passing back.
REGRESS, verb. (intransitive) To move backwards to an earlier stage; to devolve.
REGRESS, verb. (transitive) (statistics) To perform a regression on an explanatory variable.

Dictionary definition

REGRESS, noun. The reasoning involved when you assume the conclusion is true and reason backward to the evidence.
REGRESS, noun. Returning to a former state.
REGRESS, verb. Go back to a statistical means.
REGRESS, verb. Go back to a previous state; "We reverted to the old rules".
REGRESS, verb. Get worse or fall back to a previous condition.
REGRESS, verb. Go back to bad behavior; "Those who recidivate are often minor criminals".

Wise words

Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.
Martin Luther King Jr.