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English
Etymology
By surface analysis, miss + -ing.
Pronunciation
Verb
missing
- present participle and gerund of miss
Adjective
missing (not comparable)
- 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 Lincoln, chapter VI, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D 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.
- Not present when it (they) should be.
missing data point
Joe went missing last year.
- Of an internal combustion engine: running roughly due to an occasional lack of a spark or other irregular fault.
Derived terms
Translations
not able to be located
- Arabic: مَفْقُود (mafqūd)
- Hijazi Arabic: مَفْقُود (mafgūd)
- Armenian: պակաս (hy) (pakas)
- Azerbaijani: itkin (az)
- Belarusian: адсу́тны (adsútny), згу́блены (zhúbljeny) (lost), стра́чаны (stráčany) (lost)
- Bulgarian: изгубен (bg) (izguben)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: (for people) 失蹤 / 失踪 (zh) (shīzōng), (for things) ...丟了 / ...丢了 (zh), ...丢了 / 丢 (zh) (...diū le)
- Dutch: vermist (nl)
- Estonian: kadunud (et), puudu olev
- Finnish: puuttuva (fi), hukassa, kateissa (fi)
- French: manquant (fr), disparu (fr)
- Galician: ausente, desaparecido (gl) m, desaparecida f
- German: fehlend (de)
- Gothic: 𐍅𐌰𐌽𐍃 (wans)
- Greek: αγνοούμενος (el) (agnooúmenos)
- Irish: ar iarraidh, easpach
- Italian: mancante (it), disperso (it)
- Laboya: jada
- Latin: absens (la), dēlicuus
- Latvian: please add this translation if you can
- Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
- Malay: hilang (ms)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: savnet
- Occitan: desaparegut (oc)
- 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)
- Swedish: försvunnen (sv), saknad (sv)
- Turkish: kayıp (tr)
- Ukrainian: відсу́тній (vidsútnij), загу́блений (zahúblenyj) (lost)
- Urdu: لاپَتَہ (lāpatah)
- Vietnamese: mất (vi)
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not present when it (they) should be
Noun
missing (plural missings)
- (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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