regressing Definition

regress
verb regresses, regressed, regressing

intr
1a. To go back;
intr
1b. To return.
intr
2. To revert to a former state or condition, usually a less desirable or less advanced one.

Thesaurus: revert, relapse, lapse, degenerate, retrogress, wane, return, backslide, deteriorate; Antonym: progress.
tr & intr
3. psychol.
To return to an earlier, less advanced stage of development or behaviour.
4. statistics.
To calculate the degree of association between one parameter (eg industrial output) and other parameters (eg time and costs).

noun

1a. A going back;
1b. A return.
2. A reversion to a former, less desirable or less advanced state or condition.

Derivative: regression

An act of regressing.

A return to an earlier level of functioning, eg an adult's reversion to infantile or adolescent behaviour.

The stage of a disease in which symptoms subside.

Measurement of the relationship between the value of a particular variable and the values of one or more possibly related variables.

The retreat of the sea from the land, which involves the boundary between marine and non-marine deposition moving towards the centre of a marine basin, or the conversion of deep-water to shallow-water conditions.

Derivative: regressive

Going back;

Returning.
Thesaurus: reverse, reactionary, backward, retrogressive; Antonym: progressive.

Reverting.

Said of taxation: with the rate decreasing as the taxable amount increases.

Derivative: regressively
adverb

Derivative: regressiveness
noun

Etymology: 14c: from Latin from regredi, regressus to return or go back.