missing

See also: mis-sing

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Etymology

By surface analysis, miss +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɪsɪŋ/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɪsɪŋ

Verb

missing

1. present participle and gerund 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 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.

Derived terms

• go missing
• missing boundary
• missing in action
• missing in time
• missing man formation
• missing market
• missing stair
• missing time
• missing trader fraud
• missing white girl syndrome
• missing white woman syndrome
• turn up missing

 

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)

not present when it (they) should be

Bulgarian: липсващ (bg) (lipsvašt), отсъстващ (bg) (otsǎstvašt) Galician: ausente Greek: απών (el) (apón) Malay: tertinggal (ms) Vietnamese: thiếu (vi)

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