ghosting vs phantom

ghosting

noun
  • 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. 

  • 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 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. 

phantom

noun
  • A ghost or apparition. 

  • A placeholder for a pair of players when there are an odd number of pairs playing. 

  • Something apparently seen, heard, or sensed, but having no physical reality; an image that appears only in the mind; an illusion or delusion. 

  • A test object. A test phantom is an object that reproduces the characteristics of human tissue. 

adj
  • Illusive. 

  • Fictitious or nonexistent. 

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