Hyphenation of Regression

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word Regression? This word can be hyphenated and contains 3 syllables as shown below.

Re-gres-sion

Definitions of Regression:

1.	An abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely
2.	(psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which you flee from reality by assuming a more infantile state
3.	The relation between selected values of x and observed values of y (from which the most probable value of y can be predicted for any value of x)
4.	Returning to a former state

Synonyms of Regression:

noun	arrested development, fixation, infantile fixation, abnormality, abnormalcy, abnormal condition
noun	defense mechanism, defense reaction, defence mechanism, defence reaction, defense, defence
noun	simple regression, regression toward the mean, statistical regression, statistical method, statistical procedure
noun	regress, reversion, retrogression, retroversion, reversal

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