ghosting vs sprite

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. 

sprite

noun
  • An apparition; ghost 

  • A two-dimensional image or animation that is integrated into a larger scene. 

  • The green woodpecker, or yaffle (Picus viridis). 

  • An electrical discharge that occurs high above the cumulonimbus cloud of an active thunderstorm. 

  • An elf; a fairy; a goblin. 

  • A spayed female ferret. 

  • Any of various African damselflies of the genus Pseudagrion (of which, Australian species are named riverdamsels). 

  • A spirit; a soul; a shade. 

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