missing
See also: mis-sing
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missing
- present participle and gerund of miss
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missing (not comparable)
- Not able to be located; gone, misplaced.
- 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.
- Not present when it (they) should be.
- missing data point
- Joe went missing last year.
- 1997, George Carlin, Brain Droppings[1], 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?
- Of an internal combustion engine: running roughly due to an occasional lack of a spark or other irregular fault.
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not able to be located
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not present when it (they) should be
Noun edit
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.