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Definition of Missing

1. Adjective. Not able to be found. "A missing person"

Definition of Missing

1. a. Absent from the place where it was expected to be found; lost; wanting; not present when called or looked for.

Definition of Missing

1. Verb. (present participle of miss) ¹

2. Adjective. Not able to be located; gone; absent; lost. ¹

3. Adjective. (of an internal combustion engine) To be running roughly due an occasional lack of a spark or other irregular fault ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Missing

1. miss [v] - See also: miss

Lexicographical Neighbors of Missing

Literary usage of Missing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1864)
"Earley, company I, wounded and missing; Sergeant F. Schall, company I, wounded; Philip Ham, company I, missing; Sergeant Robert Tuthill, company K, ..."

2. The Photographic History of the Civil War ...: Thousands of Scenes by Francis Trevelyan Miller, Robert Sampson Lanier (1911)
"Losses: Union, 8 killed, 42 wounded; Confed., 240 missing. 27 and 28.—Fair Oaks, Va. Union, Tenth and Eighteenth Corps and ..."

3. The Principles and Practice of Surveying by Charles Blaney Breed, George Leonard Hosmer (1908)
"SUPPLYING missing DATA. — If any two of the bearings or distances are omitted in the traverse of a field the missing data can be supplied and the area ..."

4. Colonial Furniture in America by Luke Vincent Lockwood (1901)
"Figure 246. Walnut and Gilt Mirror, 1720-40. Figure 247. Wood and Gilt Mirror, about 1730. (Centre ornament missing.) (Some parts missing. ..."

5. A Treatise on the Law of Surveying and Boundaries by Frank Emerson Clark (1922)
"First: Retrace the original range line and mark it in the vicinity of the various triple corners. Second: Retrace the section lines closing upon the missing ..."

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