ghosting vs zombie

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. 

zombie

noun
  • A person, usually undead, animated by unnatural forces (such as magic), with no soul or will of his/her own. 

  • A cocktail of rum and fruit juices. 

  • A human being in a state of extreme mental exhaustion. 

  • Marijuana, or similar drugs. 

  • A conscripted member of the Canadian military during World War II who was assigned to home defence rather than to combat in Europe. 

  • A hypothetical being that is indistinguishable from a normal human being except in that it lacks conscious experience, qualia, or sentience. 

  • An apathetic or slow-witted person. 

  • A process or task which has terminated but has not been removed from the list of processes, typically because it has an unresponsive parent process. 

  • An information worker who has signed a nondisclosure agreement. 

  • A computer affected by malware which causes it to do whatever the attacker wants it to do without the user's knowledge. 

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