apparition vs ghosting

apparition

noun
  • An unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance; especially something such as a ghost or phantom. 

  • The first appearance of a star or other luminary after having been invisible or obscured; opposed to occultation. 

  • A period of consecutive days or nights when a particular celestial body may be observed, beginning with the heliacal rising of the body and ending with its heliacal setting. 

  • An act of becoming visible; appearance; visibility. 

  • The thing appearing; a visible object; a form. 

ghosting

noun
  • Ghost imaging. 

  • The practice of hiding prisoners from inspection from (possibly hostile) outside inspectors. 

  • The blurry appearance of a television picture resulting from interference caused by multipath reception. 

  • A form of identity theft in which someone steals the identity, and sometimes even the role within society, of a specific dead person (the "ghost") who is not widely known to be deceased. 

  • A problem with a keyboard where certain simultaneous keypresses trigger the action of a further key that was not in fact pressed. 

  • A method of ending a personal relationship by stopping any contact with the other party and not providing an explanation. 

  • The phenomenon of the writing on one side of a page in a notebook being partly visible on the other side. 

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