regression

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Learned borrowing from Latin regressio. Equivalent to regress + -ion. The statistics sense comes from regression to the mean.

68 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: връщане назад (vrǎštane nazad) — return to a previous state
• Chinese Mandarin: 回歸 /回归 (huíguī) — return to a previous state
• Chinese Mandarin: 迴歸 /回归 (huíguī) — return to a previous state
• Dutch: teruggang — return to a previous state
• Finnish: taantuminen — return to a previous state
• Finnish: regressio — return to a previous state
• French: régression — return to a previous state
• German: Rückbildung — return to a previous state
• German: Rückfall — return to a previous state
• German: Rückgang — return to a previous state
• German: Rückschritt — return to a previous state
• Greek: οπισθοδρόμηση (opisthodrómisi) — return to a previous state
• Greek: υποστροφή (ypostrofí) — return to a previous state
• Greek: υποχώρηση (ypochórisi) — return to a previous state
• Irish: aischéimniú — return to a previous state
• Italian: regressione — return to a previous state
• Japanese: 回帰 (kaiki) — return to a previous state
• Korean: 회귀 (hoegwi) — return to a previous state
• Central Kurdish: پاشۆچوون (paşoçûn) — return to a previous state
• Macedonian: назадување (nazaduvanje) — return to a previous state
• Macedonian: уназадување (unazaduvanje) — return to a previous state
• Māori: tauhekenga — return to a previous state
• Norwegian: regresjon — return to a previous state
• Polish: regres — return to a previous state
• Polish: uwstecznienie — return to a previous state
• Polish: cofnięcie — return to a previous state
• Polish: regresja — return to a previous state
• Portuguese: regressão — return to a previous state
• Russian: регре́ссия (regréssija) — return to a previous state
• Russian: регре́сс (regréss) — return to a previous state
• Russian: возвраще́ние (vozvraščénije) — return to a previous state
• Serbo-Croatian: регресија — return to a previous state
• Serbo-Croatian: regresija — return to a previous state
• Serbo-Croatian: nazadovanje — return to a previous state
• Spanish: regresión — return to a previous state
• Spanish: retroceso — return to a previous state
• Turkish: gerileme — return to a previous state
• Bulgarian: ретроспекция (retrospekcija) — action of travelling mentally back in time
• Finnish: takauma — action of travelling mentally back in time
• Finnish: regressio — action of travelling mentally back in time
• Indonesian: regresi — action of travelling mentally back in time
• Turkish: gerileme — action of travelling mentally back in time
• Finnish: regressio — psychotherapy: method of healing
• Bulgarian: регресия (regresija) — statistics: analytic method
• Chinese Mandarin: 回歸 /回归 (huíguī) — statistics: analytic method
• Chinese Mandarin: 迴歸 /回归 (huíguī) — statistics: analytic method
• Finnish: regressioanalyysi — statistics: analytic method
• Finnish: regressio — statistics: analytic method
• French: régression — statistics: analytic method
• Greek: απόκλιση (apóklisi) — statistics: analytic method
• Hungarian: regresszió — statistics: analytic method
• Icelandic: aðhvarf — statistics: analytic method
• Indonesian: regresi — statistics: analytic method
• Irish: cúlú — statistics: analytic method
• Italian: regressione — statistics: analytic method
• Japanese: 回帰 (kaiki) — statistics: analytic method
• Kazakh: регрессия (regressiä) — statistics: analytic method
• Central Kurdish: پاشۆچوون (paşoçûn) — statistics: analytic method
• Norwegian: regresjon — statistics: analytic method
• Portuguese: regressão — statistics: analytic method
• Serbo-Croatian: регресија — statistics: analytic method
• Serbo-Croatian: regresija — statistics: analytic method
• Spanish: regresión — statistics: analytic method
• Tagalog: balitugnay — statistics: analytic method
• Finnish: regressioyhtälö — statistics: equation
• Indonesian: regresi — statistics: equation
• Finnish: regressio — medicine: diminishing of a cellular mass
• Turkish: gerileme — medicine: diminishing of a cellular mass