missing

See also: mis-sing

English

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^[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?

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