Ghosting

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -əʊstɪŋ

Origin

ghost + -ing

Full definition of ghosting

Noun

1. The practice of hiding prisoners from inspection from (possibly hostile) outside inspectors.
2. The effect that interference caused by a multipath reception problem has on a television screen.
3. 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 are not recognised.