Retrogression

  • 41MOUVEMENT — Certes, la conceptualisation du mouvement ne date pas des débuts de la science moderne. Force est de constater, cependant, que la physique moderne est née à propos de la question du mouvement et en réaction, sur ce point précis, contre la… …

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  • 42recul — [ r(ə)kyl ] n. m. • 1580; « possibilité de reculer » XIIIe; de reculer 1 ♦ Action de reculer (en parlant d un mécanisme). Recul d un canon, d une arme à feu, mouvement vers l arrière après le départ du coup. Le récupérateur utilise la force… …

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  • 43regression — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Passage back Nouns 1. regression, retrogression, retrogradation, retroaction, retreat, return, reversion; relapse, recession, recess; recidivism, backsliding, fall, deterioration. See failure. 2. reflux …

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  • 44regression — /riˈgrɛʃən/ (say ree greshuhn) noun 1. the act of going back; return; backward movement. 2. retrogradation; retrogression. 3. Biology reversion to an earlier or less advanced state or form or to a common or general type; retrogression. 4.… …

  • 45advancement — [n1] promotion, progress advance, amelioration, betterment, elevation, gain, growth, headway, improvement, preference, preferment, prelation, rise, upgrading; concepts 700,704 Ant. cessation, decline, descent, downfall, regression, retreat,… …

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  • 46retroversion — noun 1. returning to a former state • Syn: ↑regression, ↑regress, ↑reversion, ↑retrogression • Derivationally related forms: ↑retrovert, ↑retrogress (for: ↑ …

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  • 47TCHERNICHOWSKY, SAUL — (1875–1943), Hebrew poet. Born in the village of Mikhailovka, Russia, Tchernichowsky grew up in the home of pious parents who were, however, open to the influences of the haskalah and Ḥibbat Zion . He attended a modern Hebrew school, where he… …

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  • 48cuspidal edge — Regression Re*gres sion (r?*gr?sh ?n), n. [L. regressio: cf. F. r[ e]gression.] The act of passing back or returning; retrogression; retrogradation. Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster] {Edge of regression} (of a surface) (Geom.), the line along which a …

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  • 49Edge of regression — Regression Re*gres sion (r?*gr?sh ?n), n. [L. regressio: cf. F. r[ e]gression.] The act of passing back or returning; retrogression; retrogradation. Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster] {Edge of regression} (of a surface) (Geom.), the line along which a …

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  • 50Regredience — Re*gre di*ence (r?*gr? d? ens), n. A going back; a retrogression; a return. [R.] Herrick. [1913 Webster] …

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