Englishleast squaresnounMeaningA method of fitting a straight line through a series of points such that the sum of the squares of the residuals is minimizedRelated wordsmethod of least squares(English)squares(English)residual sum of squares(English)bisquare(English)mean square(English)data smoothing(English)linearization(English)linear regression(English)SourcesDictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data