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