ghosting English

Meaning ghosting meaning

What does ghosting mean?

ghosting noun

— The practice of hiding prisoners from inspection from (possibly hostile) outside inspectors.

— (electronics, television) The blurry appearance of a television picture resulting from interference caused by multipath reception.

— (computing) Ghost imaging.

— 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.

— (computing) A problem with a keyboard where certain simultaneous keypresses trigger the action of a further key that was not in fact pressed.

— (slang) A method of ending a personal relationship by stopping any contact with the other party and not providing an explanation. [from 2014]

— a way to break relationship