ghosting
Noun

ghosting

  1. The practice of hiding prisoners from inspection from (possibly hostile) outside inspectors.
  2. (electronics, television) The blurry appearance of a television picture resulting from interference caused by multipath reception.
  3. (computing) Ghost imaging.
  4. 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.
  5. (computing) A problem with a keyboard where certain simultaneous keypresses trigger the action of a further key that was not in fact pressed.
  6. (slang) A method of ending a personal relationship by stopping any contact with the other party and not providing an explanation. [from 2014]
    Stories of ghosting often deal with broken-off romances, but it's worth mentioning that friend ghosting is real, and sometimes necessary.
  7. The phenomenon of the writing on one side of a page in a notebook being partly visible on the other side.
Translations
  • German: Geisterbild
Translations Verb
  1. present participle of ghost#English|ghost



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