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Missile guidance
Missile guidance, also called a missile guidance system, controls a missile's path so it reaches its target, using beam riding, command, homing, or inertial methods developed since World War II.
Missile launch facility
A missile launch facility, also known as a missile silo, is a hardened underground installation that protects and launches a ballistic missile, most often an ICBM on continuous alert.
Missile Technology Control Regime
The Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) is an informal, non-treaty export control arrangement founded by the G-7 in 1987 to restrict missiles and UAVs capable of delivering WMD; it has 35 Partners, Category I/II annex lists, and a strong presumption to deny Category I transfers.
Missing (1982 film)
Missing (1982) is Costa-Gavras's political drama starring Jack Lemmon and Sissy Spacek as Ed and Beth Horman searching for journalist Charles Horman in post-coup Chile; it won the Palme d'Or and Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar.
Missing (2018 film)
Missing (2018) is a Hindi-language psychological thriller directed by Mukul Abhyankar, starring Tabu, Manoj Bajpayee, and Annu Kapoor, about a girl vanishing from a Mauritius resort; released 6 April 2018, grossing $138,983, distinct from Searching and the 2023 American Missing.
Missing (2023 film)
Missing is a 2023 American screenlife mystery thriller in which Storm Reid plays a teenager who investigates her mother's disappearance in Colombia through digital screens.
Missing 9
Missing 9 (미씽나인, Missing Nine) is a 2017 MBC Korean mystery thriller: nine entertainment-agency survivors of a plane crash on an uninhabited island, with amnesiac sole survivor Ra Bong-hee unraveling the fate of the other eight.
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW, MMIWG, MMIWG2S, MMIP): the crisis of disproportionate violence against Indigenous women, girls, and Two-Spirit people in North America, marked by Canada's 2016-2019 national inquiry and 231 Calls for Justice, U.S. legislation such as Savanna's Act, and red dress advocacy.
Missing at random
Missing at random (MAR) is a statistical assumption about incomplete data stating that missingness depends only on observed data, one of three mechanisms classified by Donald Rubin in 1976.
Missing Crown Prince (세자가 사라졌다)
Missing Crown Prince (세자가 사라졌다) is a 2024 MBN 20-episode weekend rom-com saeguk, spinoff of Bossam, starring EXO's Suho as crown prince Yi Gun, kidnapped by Hong Ye-ji's Choi Myung-yoon.
Missing data
Missing data, also called missingness or missing values, are values in a study or survey that went unrecorded, and are handled by imputation and weight adjustment.
Missing dollar riddle
Missing dollar riddle, also called the missing dollar paradox: a hotel brain teaser where $27 plus $2 seems $1 short of $30. No money is missing; the trick double-counts the bellhop's $2, already inside the $27.
Missing energy (particle physics)
Missing energy in particle physics is energy carried out of a collision by particles a detector cannot see, usually neutrinos, measured as missing transverse energy (MET).
Missing in action
Missing in action (MIA): a military casualty status for personnel whose fate and whereabouts are unknown, presumed due to enemy action. Covers US definitions, Missing Persons Act, DPAA accounting, and ICRC missing-persons law.
Missing in Action (film)
Missing in Action is a 1984 American action film starring Chuck Norris as Colonel James Braddock, a Vietnam veteran who returns to Vietnam to rescue American prisoners of war.
Missing Johnny
Missing Johnny (強尼‧凱克) is Huang Xi's 2017 Taiwanese debut drama, executive produced by Hou Hsiao-hsien, starring Rima Zeidan, Lawrence Ko, and Sean Huang; it won four Taipei Film Awards and was banned from mainland Chinese release in 2018.
Missing Link (2019 film)
Missing Link is a 2019 American stop-motion animated adventure comedy by Laika, directed by Chris Butler, following a Victorian explorer escorting a talking Bigfoot toward the Himalayas.
Missing man formation
The missing man formation is a ceremonial flypast in which aircraft honor a fallen or absent aviator by leaving one place empty or having one aircraft climb away.
Missing person
Missing person: a person whose whereabouts are unknown or unexplained to family, social, or work environments. Covers definitions, US NCIC and NamUs databases, ICMP identification work, risk assessment, and data limitations.
Missing Persons (band)
Missing Persons: Los Angeles new wave band formed in 1980 (initially U.S. Drag) by ex-Frank Zappa players Dale and Terry Bozzio, Warren Cuccurullo, Patrick O'Hearn, and Chuck Wild; gold 1982 album Spring Session M, an anagram of the band name, with "Words," "Destination Unknown," and "Walking in L.A."
Missing persons in Mexico
Missing persons in Mexico: over 130,000 people in the RNPDNO national registry, mostly disappeared since the 2006 drug war, amid a forensic crisis of about 70,000 unidentified bodies, family-led search collectives, and 2025 legal reforms creating the Plataforma Única de Identidad.
Missing scientists conspiracy theory
Missing scientists conspiracy theory: claim since 2022, viral in 2026, that NASA and Los Alamos-linked scientists died or vanished in a coordinated plot; fact-checkers found no connection.
Missing Soluch
Missing Soluch (Jā-ye ḵāli-e Soluč) is a novel by the Iranian writer Mahmoud Dowlatabadi, first published in 1979 and set in the village of Zaminej in northeastern Iran.
Missing square puzzle
Missing square puzzle, also called Curry's paradox: a dissection illusion credited to magician Paul Curry (1953) in which four pieces form an apparent 13x5 triangle; mismatched slopes 3/8 and 2/5 bend the hypotenuse, producing a one-square hole.
Missing stair
Missing stair: metaphor coined by Cliff Jerrison (Cliff Pervocracy) in a June 22, 2012 blog post for a known harmful person a community quietly works around instead of fixing, so newcomers get hurt.
Missing white woman syndrome
Missing white woman syndrome, coined by Gwen Ifill in 2004, describes US media's disproportionate coverage of missing young white women versus people of color, confirmed empirically by Sommers's 2016 study.
Missing xenon
Missing xenon, also called the missing xenon paradox or missing Xe problem, is the shortfall of over 90% of Earth's expected atmospheric xenon relative to chondritic meteorites.
Missing You (2025 TV series)
Missing You (2025 TV series): five-part Netflix British thriller limited series, adapted by Victoria Asare-Archer from Harlan Coben's 2014 novel, starring Rosalind Eleazar as Detective Kat Donovan, released January 1, 2025, set in Manchester.
Missing You (Coben novel)
Missing You is Harlan Coben's 2014 Dutton thriller about NYPD Detective Kat Donovan finding ex-fiancé Jeff on a dating site; a #1 NYT bestseller, adapted as Netflix's five-part 2025 series set in Manchester with Rosalind Eleazar.
Missing You (John Waite song)
Missing You is a 1984 soft rock single by John Waite, written with Mark Leonard and Chas Sandford for No Brakes; it reached No 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, No 9 in the UK, and was covered by Tina Turner and duetted with Alison Krauss.