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Ghosting

Noun

Definitionen

1.NounA method of ending a personal relationship by stopping any contact with the other party and not providing an explanation. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
"Stories of ghosting often deal with broken-off romances, but ghosting can end a friendship as well."
2.NounThe blurry appearance of a television picture resulting from interference caused by multipath reception.
3.NounA 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.
4.NounThe phenomenon of the writing on one side of a page in a notebook being partly visible on the other side.
5.NounGhost imaging.
6.NounThe practice of hiding prisoners from inspection by outside inspectors.
"Their hastily fabricated Potemkin village was practically deserted, what with all the ghosting."
7.NounThe act or habit of exhaling vape smoke slowly, to prevent others from noticing.
8.NounA problem with a keyboard where certain simultaneous keypresses trigger the action of a further key that was not in fact pressed.
9.Verbpresent participle and gerund of ghost
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