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Webster 1913 Edition
Missing
Miss′ing
,Adj.
[From ]
Miss
, Verb.
I.
Absent from the place where it was expected to be found; lost; lacking; wanting; not present when called or looked for.
Neither was there aught
missing
unto them. 1 Sam. xxv. 7.
For a time caught up to God, as once
Moses was in the mount, and
Moses was in the mount, and
missing
long. Milton.
Webster 1828 Edition
Missing
MISS'ING
,ppr.
1.
a. Lost; absent from the place where it was expected to be found; wanting. My horse is missing; my pen or my book is missing. For a time caught up to God, as once
Moses was in the mount, and missing long.
Definition 2024
missing
missing
English
Verb
missing
- present participle of miss
Adjective
missing (not comparable)
- Not able to be located; gone; absent; lost.
- 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.
-
- (of an internal combustion engine) Running roughly due to an occasional lack of a spark or other irregular fault.
Translations
missing, lacking, lost
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)