missing

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missing

1. present participle and gerund of miss

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.

   • 1997, George Carlin, Brain Droppings‎, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 71:

     How likely is it that all the people who are described as missing are living together in a small town somewhere?

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

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.

• missing in action
• missing link
• missing person

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