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regression


regression - noun

  • an abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely
  • (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which you flee from reality by assuming a more infantile state
  • 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)
  • returning to a former state

    • regression - thesaurus

    fixation   regress   retrogression   retroversion   reversion  

    Scrabble score for regression

    r is 1 e is 1 g is 2 r is 1 e is 1 s is 1 s is 1 i is 1 o is 1 n is 1
    Scrabble score = 11

    Please note that scrabble only allows seven tiles to be placed at once.

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