Rückbildung — meaning in English
German → English · translate English → German instead
English meaning
- regression noun A return to an earlier, usually less developed or less desirable, state.
- remission noun A period during which a serious illness lessens or its symptoms disappear.
Senses
Rückbildung is used for these senses in English:
- back-formation (uncountable, linguistics) The process by which a new word is formed from an older word by interpreting the former as a derivative of the latter, often by removing a morpheme (real or perceived) from the older word, such as the verb burgle, formed by removing -ar (perceived as an agent-noun suffix) from burglar.
- regression An action of regressing, a return to a previous state.
- remission (medicine) An abatement or lessening of the manifestations of a disease; a period where the symptoms of a disease are absent.
regression — full definition
- noun A return to an earlier, usually less developed or less desirable, state.
- noun A statistical method used to measure how one variable relates to, or can predict, another.
- noun The reappearance of a software bug that had previously been fixed.
remission — full definition
- noun A period during which a serious illness lessens or its symptoms disappear.
- noun A reduction in a prison sentence, often for good behavior.
- noun The forgiveness or canceling of a debt, fine, or offense.
Vocabulary Flow
Learn more English words in German.
Vocabulary Flow serves English words with the German meaning, one at a time — pronunciation and an example each time. Scroll it either direction.
Learn English in German
