ghosting
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ghosting
Rhymes with -əʊstɪŋ
Where it comes from
From ghost + -ing.
noun ghostings
- A method of ending a personal relationship by stopping any contact with the other party and not providing an explanation. Stories of ghosting often deal with broken-off romances, but ghosting can end a friendship as well.
- 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.
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The phenomenon of the writing on one side of a page in a notebook being partly visible on the other side.
Near-synonyms: bleed-through, bleeding, print-through
Similar: bleed-through, bleeding, print-through
- Ghost imaging.
- The practice of hiding prisoners from inspection by outside inspectors. Their hastily fabricated Potemkin village was practically deserted, what with all the ghosting.
- 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. 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.
verb
- present participle and gerund of ghost
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noun appearance of ghosts on a television screen
| Português | fantasma |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | Geisterbild |
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