verb🔗ShareTo move backwards to an earlier stage; to devolve."When a child is stressed, their behavior sometimes regresses, and they might start sucking their thumb again. "agebiologyphysiologymindChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo move from east to west.""Because the planet orbits closer to the sun than we do, Venus appears to move across the sky in a way that regresses from east to west, unlike the other planets." "directiongeographyChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo perform a regression on an explanatory variable."When we regress Y on X, we use the values of variable X to predict those of Y."statisticsmathChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading