missing

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɪsɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -ɪsɪŋ

Verb

missing

1. present participle of miss

Adjective

missing (not comparable)

1. Not able to be located; gone, misplaced.

   Synonyms: absent, lost

   my missing socks

   • 1808 October 1, “State of Public Affairs in September. Containing Official Papers and Authentic Documents. [Killed and Wounded on Board the Emperor of Russia’s Late Ship of War Sevolod.]”, in The Monthly Magazine, or British Register, volume XXVI, part II, number 3 (number 176 overall), London: Printed for Richard Phillips, […]; printed by J. Adlard, […], →OCLC, page 281, column 1:

     Forty three killed and 80 wounded in action with the Implacable. 180 killed and miſſing in action with the Centaur.

   • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter 6, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, →OL:

     She was so mad she wouldn't speak to me for quite a spell, but at last I coaxed her into going up to Miss Emmeline's room and fetching down a tintype of the missing Deacon man.

2. Not present when it (they) should be.

   missing data point

   Joe went missing last year.

3. Of an internal combustion engine: running roughly due to an occasional lack of a spark or other irregular fault.

Derived terms

• missing in action

Translations

not able to be located

• Armenian: պակաս (hy) (pakas)
• Azerbaijani: itkin (az)
• Belarusian: адсу́тны (adsútny), згу́блены (zhúbljeny) (lost), стра́чаны (stráčany) (lost)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (for people) 失蹤／失踪 (zh) (shīzōng), 失踪 (zh) (shīzōng), (for things) ...丟了／...丢了 (zh), ...丢了／丢 (zh) (...diū le)

• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: puuttuva (fi), hukassa, kateissa (fi)
• French: manquant (fr), disparu (fr)
• German: fehlend (de)
• Greek: απών (el) (apón), λέιπων (léipon)
• Irish: ar iarraidh, easpach
• Italian: mancante (it)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Laboya: jada
• Latin: absens (la), dēlicuus
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: savnet

• Polish: brakujący, zaginiony (pl)
• Portuguese: sumido, faltante (pt), desaparecido (pt), perdido (pt)
• Romanian: dispărut (ro)
• Russian: отсу́тствующий (ru) (otsútstvujuščij), потерянный (ru) (poterjannyj) (lost)
• Spanish: faltante (es), ausente (es), desaparecido (es)
• Turkish: kayıp (tr)
• Ukrainian: відсу́тній (vidsútnij), загу́блений (zahúblenyj) (lost)

Noun

missing (plural missings)

1. (statistics) A value that is missing.
   • 1997, S. Klinke, Data Structures for Computational Statistics (page 27)

     The treatment of missings is a problem in statistical software.

   • 2002, David J. Hand, ‎Niall M. Adams, ‎Richard J. Bolton, Pattern Detection and Discovery

     Patterns of missings across the whole data set are readily visible, but also patterns which only apply to small subgroups of cases.

See also

• missing in action
• missing link
• missing person

Anagrams

• missign