ghosting
The English word “ghosting” has 8 meanings listed here.
noun
- A method of ending a personal relationship by stopping any contact with the other party and not providing an explanation.
- 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.
- The phenomenon of the writing on one side of a page in a notebook being partly visible on the other side.
- Ghost imaging.
- The practice of hiding prisoners from inspection by outside inspectors.
- The act or habit of exhaling vape smoke slowly, to prevent others from noticing.
- A problem with a keyboard where certain simultaneous keypresses trigger the action of a further key that was not in fact pressed.
Etymology
From ghost + -ing.
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