present participle of miss

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.

(statistics) A value that is missing.

A person whose whereabouts are unknown and who is being sought.

(chiefly military) The designation for a member of an organization (usually military) with whom contact is lost and whose whereabouts are not known, but whose death is not confirmed.

(colloquial) A hypothetical primate once thought necessary to explain a perceived evolutionary gap between apes and humans. / (figuratively) Any sought-after or valuable intermediary figure or position.

Absence. / Missing data; omission. / (statistics) The manner in which data are missing from a sample of a population.

(of a compact topological space with boundary) Having had some but not all of its boundary removed.

plural of missing person

plural of missing link