Definition of Regressing

1. Verb. (present participle of regress) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Regressing

1. regress [v] - See also: regress

Lexicographical Neighbors of Regressing

regredes
regredience
regreding
regreen
regreened
regreening
regreens
regreet
regreeted
regreeting
regreets
regress
regressand
regressed
regresses
regressing (current term)
regressing atypical histiocytosis
regression
regression analysis
regression coefficient
regression curve
regression equation
regression line
regression of the mean
regression of y on x
regression to the mean
regression toward the mean
regression tree
regressional
regressions

Literary usage of Regressing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Readers and Writers (1917-1921) by Alfred Richard Orage (1922)
"America regressing Just when we in Europe were beginning to envy America her promise, contrasting it with the winter of our own discontent, ..."

2. Readers and Writers (1917-1921) by Alfred Richard Orage (1922)
"America regressing Just when we in Europe were beginning to envy America her promise, contrasting it with the winter of our own discontent, ..."

3. Moving and Accessing SAS 9.1 Files by Institute SAS Institute (2004)
"Note: regressing a data set (moving from a later release to an earlier ... For details about file regression, see "regressing SAS Data Sets to SAS 6 Format" ..."

4. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1910)
"If the histological structure of the regressing ... especially the predominance of atypical regressing syncytium, and comparative or complete absence of ..."

5. Neoplastic Diseases: A Treatise on Tumors by James Ewing (1922)
"In old regressing carcinoma large areas of tissue may show very few tumor-cells in a mass of quiescent hyaline stroma. Edema, mucous degeneration ..."

6. The Mathematical Principles of Mechanical Philosophy and Their Application by John Henry Pratt (1842)
"Then as the Moon moves from N to m the inclination is decreasing and the line of nodes regressing : and as she moves from m to q the inclination is ..."

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