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Definition of "ghosting"

ghosting

  • noun

    countable and uncountable, plural ghostings

    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.    

      Quotations

      • Examine your matrix map, and make sure that no three keystrokes form a rectangle with a fourth keystroke that will cause you problems. This prevents both ghosting and blocking.

        2011, John St. Clair, Project Arcade: Build Your Own Arcade Machine, page 218

    6. (colloquial) A method of ending a personal relationship by stopping any contact with the other party and not providing an explanation.  

    7. The phenomenon of the writing on one side of a page in a notebook being partly visible on the other side.  

  • verb

    1. present participle and gerund of ghost  

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Learn more...

  • Synonyms of "ghosting"
  • Antonyms of "ghosting"
  • Ghosting - Wikipedia
  • ghosting - Wiktionary
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