missing

English

missing

missing (not comparable)

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 1013453163, 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 6, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, OL 5535161W:
  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, Carlin, George, Brain Droppings‎, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, LCCN 96-52373, OCLC 36084460, OL 26335012M, 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.

not able to be located

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)
Estonian: kadunud (et), puudu olev
Finnish: puuttuva (fi), hukassa, kateissa (fi)
French: manquant (fr), disparu (fr)
German: fehlend (de)
Gothic: 𐍅𐌰𐌽𐍃 (wans)
Greek: απών (el) (apón), λέιπων (léipon)
Irish: ar iarraidh, easpach
Italian: mancante (it), disperso (it)
Laboya: jada
Latin: absens (la), dēlicuus
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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

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.