missing

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English

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Etymology

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By surface analysis, miss +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈmɪsɪŋ/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɪsɪŋ

Verb

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missing

  1. present participle and gerund of miss

Adjective

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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 VI, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
      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.

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Noun

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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.

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