ghosting

ghosting definitions

• 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.