Ghosting
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Ghosting may refer to:
Common uses
- Ghosting (identity theft), a form of identity theft, whereby a person takes on the identity of a deceased person
- Ghosting (incarceration), repeatedly moving a prisoner through different institutions to avoid scrutiny, or because the prisoner has become unmanageable
- Ghosting (behavior), ending all communication and contact with another person without any apparent warning or justification
- Ghosting (television), a double image when receiving a distorted or multipath input signal in analog television broadcasting
- Ghosting, an offset printing defect produced in one of two ways, in which faint replicas of printed images appear in undesirable places
- Comment ghosting, a form of stealth banning on internet forums
- Key ghosting, a phenomenon where multiple simultaneous key presses on a computer keyboard can result in incorrectly registered keystrokes
- Lens flare, an optical effect caused by internal reflections
- Multiple appearances of the same object in High dynamic range imaging, where multiple images are merged into one.
Arts, entertainment, and media
- Ghosting (strategy), a way of playing a video game that emphasizes stealthiness
- Ghosting, a form of cheating in online games
- "Ghosting", a song by Mother Mother from the 2008 album O My Heart
See also
- Ghost (disambiguation)
- Ghost image (disambiguation)
- Ghostin (disambiguation)
- Ghostwriting, the practice of producing written material that is credited to another person