Definition of Regresses

1. Verb. (third-person singular of regress) ¹

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Definition of Regresses

1. regress [v] - See also: regress

Lexicographical Neighbors of Regresses

regreded
regredes
regredience
regreding
regreen
regreened
regreening
regreens
regreet
regreeted
regreeting
regreets
regress
regressand
regressed
regresses (current term)
regressing
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

Literary usage of Regresses

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

1. Gravitation: An Elementary Explanation of the Principal Perturbations in the by George Biddell Airy (1884)
"The inclination, therefore, is not sensibly altered in a whole revolution, but the line of nodes regresses during the whole of the revolution. (201. ..."

2. Gravitation: An Elementary Explanation of the Principal Perturbations in the by George Biddell Airy (1834)
"... going from quadrature to syzygy (in which the node regresses and the inclination diminishes, by the third case) ; then we come to the state in which the ..."

3. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1838)
"The inclination, therefore, is not sensibly altered in a whole revolution, but the line of nodes regresses during the whole of the revolution. (201. ..."

4. Arts and Sciences: Or, Fourth Division of "The English Encyclopedia" edited by Charles Knight (1867)
"The inclination, therefore, is not sensibly altered in a whole revolution, but the line of nodes regresses during the whole of the revolution. > (201. ..."

5. The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain), George Long (1838)
"from B, to B,, the line of nodes is made to regrew, and •• • inclination is diminished ; while the moon mores from _ to B3, the line of nodes regresses, ..."

6. Treatise on the Deeds and Forms Used in the Constitution, Transmission, and by Alexander Duff (1838)
"IT is ALWAYS DECLARED that it shall not be necessary to insert any bands or writs for making of reversions (or regresses) unless seisin pass in favour of ..."

7. An Abridgement of the Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland: From the Reign of by William Alexander (1841)
"IT IS ALWAIES DECLARED, that it shall not be necessary, to insert any Bands, or Writs, for making of reversions or regresses, ..."

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