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発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ɹɪˈɡɹɛʃ.ən/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ɹiːˈɡɹɛʃ.ən/, /ɹɪˈɡɹɛʃ.ən/
• (Canada) IPA: /ɹəˈɡɹɛʃ.ən/
• (General Australian) IPA: /ɹəˈɡɹeʃ.ən/
• (Bangladesh, India) IPA: /rɪˈɡre.ʃən/, /rɪˈɡrɛ.ʃən/

名詞

regression (countable and uncountable, plural regressions)

1. An action of regressing, a return to a previous state.

   Synonyms: deconversion, restitution, step back; see also Thesaurus:reversion

   • 1899, Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class […] ‎, New York: Macmillan, →OCLC:

     Few of these groups or communities that are classed as "savage" show no traces of regression from a more advanced cultural stage.

2. An action of travelling mentally back in time.
   • 2001, Carol DeCuffa, In Search of Home: An Essential Guide for the Evolving Soul‎:

     I have done past life regressions on my own through self-hypnosis techniques that I learned in Brian Weiss's book Many Lives, Many Masters as well as with past life regression tapes.

3. (psychotherapy) A psychotherapeutic method whereby healing is facilitated by inducing the patient to act out behaviour typical of an earlier developmental stage.
4. (statistics) An analytic method to measure the association of one or more independent variables with a dependent variable.
   • 2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, chapter 4, in Illusion of Order:

     A social norm hypothesis [of crime] that focuses on the social meaning of order cannot be tested by a single time frame regression of neighborhood disorder and crime. That is simply asking too much of the data.

   • (Can we date this quote?), (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎:

     Supervised learning problems are categorized into "regression" and "classification" problems. In a regression problem, we are trying to predict results within a continuous output, meaning that we are trying to map input variables to some continuous function.

5. (statistics) An equation using specified and associated data for two or more variables such that one variable can be estimated from the remaining variable(s).

   Hyponym: linear regression

6. (programming) The reappearance of a bug in a piece of software that had previously been fixed.
7. (medicine) The diminishing of a cellular mass like a tumor, or of an organ size.
8. (exercise) The making an exercise less straining to perform by manipulating the details of its performance like loaded weight, range of motion, angle, speed.

反意語

• progression

派生語

派生した語

• → Dutch: regressie

参照

• regression on Wikipedia.Wikipedia