missing
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmɪsɪŋ/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɪsɪŋ
Adjective
missing (not comparable)
- Not able to be located; gone; misplaced
- 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 6, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
- 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.
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- 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
missing, lacking, lost
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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.
- 1997, S. Klinke, Data Structures for Computational Statistics (page 27)
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