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1. Oxford American Dictionary

   regress

   • v.
     return to a former or less developed state；return mentally to a former stage of life or a supposed previous life, especially through hypnosis or mental illness
   • n.
     the action of returning to a former or less developed state；a series of statements in which a logical procedure is continually reapplied to its own result without approaching a useful conclusion (e.g. defining something in terms of itself).

   • verb: regress, 3rd person present: regresses, gerund or present participle: regressing, past tense: regressed, past participle: regressed

   • noun: regress, plural noun: regresses

2. • 釋義

   v.

   動詞

   • 1. return to a former or less developed state art has been regressing toward adolescence for more than a generation now
   • ▪ return mentally to a former stage of life or a supposed previous life, especially through hypnosis or mental illness she claims to be able to regress to the Roman era I regressed Sylvia to early childhood
   • 2. calculate the coefficient or coefficients of regression of (a variable) against or on another variable a model in which C and Y are regressed on the same variables
   • 3. move in a retrograde direction a planet regularly regresses

   n.

   名詞

   • 1. the action of returning to a former or less developed state the regress is a return to Puritan values a regress to the nursery
   • 2. a series of statements in which a logical procedure is continually reapplied to its own result without approaching a useful conclusion (e.g. defining something in terms of itself).