English words for 'The quality of being regressive.'
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- (emergency medicine) Initialism of artificial respiration.
- (age regression) Initialism of age regression.
- (philately, postal) Initialism of acknowledgment of receipt.
- (aviation) Initialism of aerial refueling.
- (sports, countable) Initialism of area record, best achievement among those by persons from a given continent.
- (meteorology) Initialism of atmospheric river.
- (uncountable, computing) Initialism of augmented reality.
- (countable, weaponry, informal) An assault rifle or automatic rifle.
- (countable) Initialism of aspect ratio.
- (biochemistry) Initialism of androgen receptor.
- Initialism of administrative rule or administrative regulation.
- (countable, sports, US) Initialism of American record, national record for the United States.
- (fandom slang) Initialism of alternate reality.
- (crime) Initialism of armed robbery.
- (uncountable or plural only, accounting) Initialism of accounts receivable.
- (law, politics) Initialism of assembly resolution.
- (countable, weaponry) An AR-15 personal semi-automatic rifle, M-16 assault rifle, M-4 carbine, derivative or related gun; the Armalite AR family and derivatives.
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verb
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- An action of regressing, a return to a previous state.
- An action of travelling mentally back in time.
- (psychotherapy) A psychotherapeutic method whereby healing is facilitated by inducing the patient to act out behaviour typical of an earlier developmental stage.
- (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).
- (medicine) The diminishing of a cellular mass like a tumor, or of an organ size.
- (exercise) The making an exercise less straining to perform by manipulating the details of its performance like loaded weight, range of motion, angle, speed.
- (programming) The reappearance of a bug in a piece of software that had previously been fixed.
- (statistics) An analytic method to measure the association of one or more independent variables with a dependent variable.
- an abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely
- (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which you flee from reality by assuming a more infantile state
- returning to a former state
- the relation between selected values of x and observed values of y (from which the most probable value of y can be predicted for any value of x)
adj
noun
adj
- Reverting to an inferior or less developed state; declining, regressing.
- Of a celestial body orbiting another: in the opposite direction to the orbited body's spin.
- (geology) Of a metamorphic change: resulting from a decrease in pressure or temperature.
- (zoology) Of an animal: appearing to regress to a less developed form during its lifetime.
- Directed or moving backwards in relation to the normal or previous direction of travel; retreating.
- (also astrology, often postpositive) Of a celestial body: seeming to move across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
- Of ideas or a person: opposing social reform, favouring the maintenance of the status quo; conservative.
- Of the order of something: inverse, reverse.
- (music) Having a passage of music played backwards.
- (medicine) Of amnesia: relating to the period leading up to the episode which caused it.
- of amnesia; affecting time immediately preceding trauma
- going from better to worse
- moving from east to west on the celestial sphere; or — for planets — around the sun in a direction opposite to that of the Earth
- moving or directed or tending in a backward direction or contrary to a previous direction
adv
noun
- A movement backwards or opposite to the intended or normal motion.
- (astrology) The apparent movement of a planet across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
- One who opposes social reform, favouring the maintenance of the status quo; a conservative.
- (music) The reversal of a melody so that what is played first in the original melody is played last, and what is played last in the original melody is played first.
verb
- (geography) Of a land feature: to travel in the direction of the land or upstream due to erosion.
- (military) To retreat or withdraw from a position.
- (geology) To change (minerals, rocks, etc.) metamorphically through a decrease in pressure or temperature.
- To revert to an inferior or less developed state; to decline, to regress.
- (geography) To cause (a land feature such as a coastline or waterfall) to undergo retrogradation, that is, to travel in the direction of the land or upstream due to erosion.
- (astrology, astronomy) Of a celestial body, especially a planet: to show retrogradation; to seem to move across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
- move in a direction contrary to the usual one
- move back
- move backward in an orbit, of celestial bodies
- go back over
- get worse or fall back to a previous condition
noun
- (psychology) The fading of a conditioned response over time if it is not reinforced.
- (astronomy) The absorption or scattering of electromagnetic radiation emitted by astronomical objects by intervening dust and gas before it reaches the observer.
- The action of making or becoming extinct; annihilation.
- (pathology) The inability to perceive multiple stimuli simultaneously.
- the reduction of the intensity of radiation as a consequence of absorption and radiation
- the act of extinguishing; causing to stop burning
- complete annihilation
- a conditioning process in which the reinforcer is removed and a conditioned response becomes independent of the conditioned stimulus
- no longer in existence
- no longer active; extinguished
noun
- The recurrence or reversion to a past behaviour, method, characteristic or style after a long period of absence.
- The reappearance of an ancestral characteristic in an organism after several generations of absence; a throwback.
- (sociology) Reversion to past primitive behavior, especially violence.
- a reappearance of an earlier characteristic
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verb
noun
- An action of regressing, a return to a previous state.
- An action of travelling mentally back in time.
- (psychotherapy) A psychotherapeutic method whereby healing is facilitated by inducing the patient to act out behaviour typical of an earlier developmental stage.
- (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).
- (medicine) The diminishing of a cellular mass like a tumor, or of an organ size.
- (exercise) The making an exercise less straining to perform by manipulating the details of its performance like loaded weight, range of motion, angle, speed.
- (programming) The reappearance of a bug in a piece of software that had previously been fixed.
- (statistics) An analytic method to measure the association of one or more independent variables with a dependent variable.
- an abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely
- (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which you flee from reality by assuming a more infantile state
- returning to a former state
- the relation between selected values of x and observed values of y (from which the most probable value of y can be predicted for any value of x)
noun
- (psychology) The fading of a conditioned response over time if it is not reinforced.
- (astronomy) The absorption or scattering of electromagnetic radiation emitted by astronomical objects by intervening dust and gas before it reaches the observer.
- The action of making or becoming extinct; annihilation.
- (pathology) The inability to perceive multiple stimuli simultaneously.
- the reduction of the intensity of radiation as a consequence of absorption and radiation
- the act of extinguishing; causing to stop burning
- complete annihilation
- a conditioning process in which the reinforcer is removed and a conditioned response becomes independent of the conditioned stimulus
- no longer in existence
- no longer active; extinguished
noun
- The recurrence or reversion to a past behaviour, method, characteristic or style after a long period of absence.
- The reappearance of an ancestral characteristic in an organism after several generations of absence; a throwback.
- (sociology) Reversion to past primitive behavior, especially violence.
- a reappearance of an earlier characteristic
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verb
adj
name
noun
- (emergency medicine) Initialism of artificial respiration.
- (age regression) Initialism of age regression.
- (philately, postal) Initialism of acknowledgment of receipt.
- (aviation) Initialism of aerial refueling.
- (sports, countable) Initialism of area record, best achievement among those by persons from a given continent.
- (meteorology) Initialism of atmospheric river.
- (uncountable, computing) Initialism of augmented reality.
- (countable, weaponry, informal) An assault rifle or automatic rifle.
- (countable) Initialism of aspect ratio.
- (biochemistry) Initialism of androgen receptor.
- Initialism of administrative rule or administrative regulation.
- (countable, sports, US) Initialism of American record, national record for the United States.
- (fandom slang) Initialism of alternate reality.
- (crime) Initialism of armed robbery.
- (uncountable or plural only, accounting) Initialism of accounts receivable.
- (law, politics) Initialism of assembly resolution.
- (countable, weaponry) An AR-15 personal semi-automatic rifle, M-16 assault rifle, M-4 carbine, derivative or related gun; the Armalite AR family and derivatives.
adj
noun
adj
- Reverting to an inferior or less developed state; declining, regressing.
- Of a celestial body orbiting another: in the opposite direction to the orbited body's spin.
- (geology) Of a metamorphic change: resulting from a decrease in pressure or temperature.
- (zoology) Of an animal: appearing to regress to a less developed form during its lifetime.
- Directed or moving backwards in relation to the normal or previous direction of travel; retreating.
- (also astrology, often postpositive) Of a celestial body: seeming to move across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
- Of ideas or a person: opposing social reform, favouring the maintenance of the status quo; conservative.
- Of the order of something: inverse, reverse.
- (music) Having a passage of music played backwards.
- (medicine) Of amnesia: relating to the period leading up to the episode which caused it.
- of amnesia; affecting time immediately preceding trauma
- going from better to worse
- moving from east to west on the celestial sphere; or — for planets — around the sun in a direction opposite to that of the Earth
- moving or directed or tending in a backward direction or contrary to a previous direction
adv
noun
- A movement backwards or opposite to the intended or normal motion.
- (astrology) The apparent movement of a planet across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
- One who opposes social reform, favouring the maintenance of the status quo; a conservative.
- (music) The reversal of a melody so that what is played first in the original melody is played last, and what is played last in the original melody is played first.
verb
- (geography) Of a land feature: to travel in the direction of the land or upstream due to erosion.
- (military) To retreat or withdraw from a position.
- (geology) To change (minerals, rocks, etc.) metamorphically through a decrease in pressure or temperature.
- To revert to an inferior or less developed state; to decline, to regress.
- (geography) To cause (a land feature such as a coastline or waterfall) to undergo retrogradation, that is, to travel in the direction of the land or upstream due to erosion.
- (astrology, astronomy) Of a celestial body, especially a planet: to show retrogradation; to seem to move across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
- move in a direction contrary to the usual one
- move back
- move backward in an orbit, of celestial bodies
- go back over
- get worse or fall back to a previous condition