# missing

Pronunciation: say "MIS-ing" /ˈmɪsɪŋ/

## Adjective

1. Not in the place where it should be or is expected to be, and often unable to be found; lost or absent.
   - Simple: Not where it should be, or lost and not able to be found.
   - _Investigators searched the woods for the missing hiker._
   - _A page was missing from the report, so the figures didn't add up._

## Verb

2. Present participle and gerund of miss. — present participle and gerund of miss
   - Simple: Present participle and gerund of miss: the -ing form, used for actions in progress or to name an action.
   - _I'm missing the meeting because my train was delayed._
   - _Missing her chance at the title, she vowed to train harder next year._

## Other meanings

- (noun) A data value that is absent from a dataset, where a measurement was expected but was never recorded or was lost.
- (adjective) Of an internal combustion engine: running roughly because of an occasional lost spark or other intermittent fault.

## Origin

Formed from "miss" combined with the suffix "-ing".

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/missing (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).