English-Spanish translations for regression

• regresión
  Hoy, nos enfrentamos a una regresión en masa, y hay una crisis política. Today we are looking at a massive regression, and there is a political crisis.
  Es un factor de regresión social. It is a factor of social regression.
  Esto constituye una regresión social grave. This constitutes a major social regression.
• retroceso
  Yo voy a votar en contra de este innombrable retroceso social. I am voting against this unspeakable social regression.
  No hay un sector de la sociedad civil china en el que no presenciemos retrocesos. There is regression in every sector of Chinese civil society.
  No hay progreso, sino un claro retroceso en Viet Nam. There is no progression; rather, there is regression in Vietnam.

Definition of regression

• An action of regressing, a return to a previous state
• An action of travelling mentally back in time
• A psychotherapeutic method whereby healing is facilitated by inducing the patient to act out behaviour typical of an earlier developmental stage
• An equation using specified and associated data for two or more variables such that one variable can be estimated from the remaining variable(s
• The diminishing of a cellular mass like a tumor, or of an organ size

Related words

• autoregression
• regression analysis
• regression to the mean
• regression testing
• regression test
• regression curve
• regression line
• anxiety regression
• marine regression