Ghosting may refer to:
Common uses
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Ghosting (identity theft)
Ghosting is 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") whose death is not widely known. Usually, the person who steals this identity (the "gho ...
, a form of identity theft, whereby a person takes on the identity of a deceased person
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Ghosting (incarceration), repeatedly moving a prisoner through different institutions to avoid scrutiny, or because the prisoner has become unmanageable
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Ghosting (behavior)
Ghosting, simmering and icing are colloquial terms that describe the practice of suddenly ending all communication and avoiding contact with another person without any apparent warning or explanation and ignoring any subsequent attempts to communi ...
, ending all communication and contact with another person without any apparent warning or justification
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Ghosting (television)
In television, a ghost is a replica of the transmitted image, offset in position, that is superimposed on top of the main image. It is often caused when a TV signal travels by two different paths to a receiving antenna, with a slight differen ...
, a double image when receiving a distorted or multipath input signal in analog television broadcasting
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Ghosting (medical imaging), a visual artifact that occurs in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans
* Ghosting, an
offset printing
Offset printing is a common printing technique in which the inked image is transferred (or "offset") from a plate to a rubber blanket and then to the printing surface. When used in combination with the lithography, lithographic process, which ...
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
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Key ghosting, a phenomenon where multiple simultaneous key presses on a computer keyboard can result in incorrectly registered keystrokes
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Lens flare
A lens flare happens when light is scattered, or ''flared'', in a lens system, often in response to a bright light, producing a sometimes undesirable artifact in the image. This happens through light scattered by the imaging mechanism itself, ...
, an optical effect caused by internal reflections
* Multiple appearances of the same object in
high dynamic range imaging
High dynamic range (HDR), also known as wide dynamic range, extended dynamic range, or expanded dynamic range, is a signal with a higher dynamic range than usual.
The term is often used in discussing the dynamic ranges of images, videos, audio or ...
, where multiple images are merged into one.
Arts, entertainment, and media
Music
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"Ghosting" (song), a song by Joe Bermudez
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Ghostin", a song by Ariana Grande
* "Ghosting", a song by Mother Mother from the 2008 album ''
O My Heart''
Video games
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Ghosting (strategy), a way of playing a video game that emphasizes stealthiness
* Ghosting, a form of
cheating in online games
On online games, cheating subverts the rules or mechanics of the games to gain an unfair advantage over other players, generally with the use of third-party software. What constitutes cheating is dependent on the game in question, its rules, ...
See also
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Ghosting: The Spirit of Christmas, a 2019 American Christmas television film
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Ghost (disambiguation)
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Ghost image (disambiguation)
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Ghostwriting
A ghostwriter is a person hired to write literature, literary or journalism, journalistic works, speeches, or other texts that are credited to another person as the author. Celebrities, executives, participants in timely news stories, and pol ...
, the practice of producing written material that is credited to another person
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Ghost riding
, frequently used in the context of "ghost riding the whip" (a "whip" being a vehicle) or simply , is when a person exits their moving vehicle, and dances beside and around it.
American rapper E-40's 2006 song "Tell Me When to Go" produced by ...
, a dance performed outside one's moving automobile
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