Pronoun

• (Yorkshire, colloquial) Myself.

Verb

• present participle of miss

Adjective

• Not able to be located; gone, misplaced.
• Not present when it (they) should be.
• Of an internal combustion engine: running roughly due to an occasional lack of a spark or other irregular fault.

Examples

• Synonyms: absent, lost
• my missing socks
• Forty three killed and 80 wounded in action with the Implacable. 180 killed and miſſing in action with the Centaur.
• 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.
• missing data point
• Joe went missing last year.

Noun

• (statistics) A value that is missing.

Examples

• The treatment of missings is a problem in statistical software.
• Patterns of missings across the whole data set are readily visible, but also patterns which only apply to small subgroups of cases.