Definitions For Ghosting

Verb

{{present participle of, en, ghost, nocat=1}}

Noun

GHOSTING. (countable and uncountable, plural GHOSTINGs) 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, 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. {{senseid, en, Q21050182}} (slang) A method of ending a personal relationship by stopping any contact with the other party and not provide, providing an explanation. from 2014 : {{ux, en, Stories of ghosting often deal with broken-off romances, but it's worth mentioning that friend ghosting is real, and sometimes necessary.}} The phenomenon of the writing on one side of a page in a notebook being partly visible on the other side.

Translations

German: Geisterbild, n Catalan: ruptura a la francesa, f Portuguese: gelo {{qualifier, colloquial}} Spanish: espantada {{qualifier, colloquial}}

Etymology

ghost + ing