missing

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   present participle and gerund of miss

2. 2

   Not able to be located

   Not able to be located; gone, misplaced.

   • my missing socks
   • Forty three killed and 80 wounded in action with the Implacable. 180 killed and miſſing in action with the Centaur.
   • 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.
3. 3

   Not present when it (they) should be.

   • missing data point
   • Joe went missing last year. He had all teeth missing when he was finally found.
   • We've got some flatware missing - There seem to be some cooking utensils missing too!
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   1. 4

      Of an internal combustion engine

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

   2. 5

      A value that is missing.

      • The treatment of missings is a problem in statistical software.
      • 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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