∙ An action of regressing, a return to a previous state.
∙ An action of travelling back in time.
∙ A psychotherapeutic method whereby healing is facilitated by inducing the patient to act out behaviour typical of an earlier developmental stage. psychotherapy
∙ An analytic method to measure the association of one or more independent variables with a dependent variable. 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). statistics
∙ The reappearance of a bug in a piece of software that had previously been fixed. programming
∙ The diminishing of a cellular mass like a tumor, or of an organ size. medicine
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