Definition of "ghosting" in English

noun

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

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

3. (computing) Ghost imaging.

4. 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.

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

6. (colloquial) A method of ending a personal relationship by stopping any contact with the other party and not providing an explanation.

   • Stories of ghosting often deal with broken-off romances, but it's worth mentioning that friend ghosting is real, and sometimes necessary.

7. The phenomenon of the writing on one side of a page in a notebook being partly visible on the other side.

8. (slang) The act or habit of exhaling vape smoke slowly, to prevent others from noticing.

verb

1. present participle and gerund of ghost