missing

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɪsɪŋ/

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missing

1. present participle of miss

missing (not comparable)

1. Not able to be located; gone; misplaced

   my missing socks

   Synonyms: absent, lost

   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 6, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     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.

• missing in action

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

• missign