meess

Noun

miss (plural misses)

1. A failure to physically hit.
   • In eight shots at the target he had six misses.
2. A failure to obtain or accomplish something; a failure to succeed.
   • After four top-ten singles, the band's next release was a miss.
3. An act of avoidance (usually used with the verb give).
   • I think I’ll give the meeting a miss.
4. (informal) Someone or something whose loss or absence is felt.
   • Top striker Smith is out injured and will be a big miss for United.
5. The situation where an item is not found in a cache and therefore needs to be explicitly loaded.
   • Already we're seeing fewer cache misses by avoiding creating cache entries for the idle task and expect to see even fewer with changes to the TLB reload code to uncache the page tables.1999, Proceedings of the Third Symposium on Operating Systems
6. A foul shot that fails to hit the target ball, where the player has, in the referee's judgement, not made every effort to play a legal shot; in addition to conceding points for the foul, the player can be made to play the shot again.

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