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Regression   Listen
noun
Regression  n.  The act of passing back or returning; retrogression; retrogradation.
Edge of regression (of a surface) (Geom.), the line along which a surface turns back upon itself; called also a cuspidal edge.
Regression point (Geom.), a cusp.





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"Regression" Quotes from Famous Books



... all organic instincts are conservative, historically acquired, and directed towards regression, towards reinstatement of something earlier, we are obliged to place all the results of organic development to the credit of external, disturbing, and distracting influences. The rudimentary creature would from its very beginning not have wanted ...
— Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy - Five Essays • George Santayana


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