ghosting

Meaning

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) The practice of hiding prisoners from inspection from (possibly hostile) outside inspectors.
2. (countable, uncountable) The blurry appearance of a television picture resulting from interference caused by multipath reception.
3. (countable, uncountable) Ghost imaging.
4. (countable, uncountable) 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. (countable, uncountable) A problem with a keyboard where certain simultaneous keypresses trigger the action of a further key that was not in fact pressed.
6. (colloquial, countable, uncountable) A method of ending a personal relationship by stopping any contact with the other party and not providing an explanation.
7. (countable, uncountable) The phenomenon of the writing on one side of a page in a notebook being partly visible on the other side.
8. (countable, slang, uncountable) The act or habit of exhaling vape smoke slowly, to prevent others from noticing.

Verb

present participle and gerund of ghost

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ghost

• Noun
• Adj
• Verb

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Translations

الحركة بخفّة

الشفافية

Ghosting

δημιουργία φαντάσματος

dédoublement

eseguire il ghosting

duplicatie

conversão em fantasma

ghosting

convertir en fantasma

gölge kopya oluşturma

Etymology

From ghost + -ing.