Ghosting
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Ghosting may refer to:
- 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 (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
- Ghosting (strategy), a way of playing a video game that emphasizes stealthiness
- Ghosting, a form of cheating in online games
- Ghosting (relationships), ending of a romantic relationship by cutting off all contact and ignoring the former partner’s attempts to reach out
- "Ghosting", a song by the band Mother Mother from their album O My Heart
- Ghosting (employer), the act in which a person interviews for a job and is led on that they may have a chance in getting the job, then no acknowledgement of the position being filled is ever conveyed to the interviewee
- Key ghosting, a phenomenon where multiple simultaneous key presses on a computer keyboard can result in incorrectly registered keystrokes
- Ghostwriting, the practice of producing written material that is credited to another person
- Comment ghosting, a form of Stealth banning on internet forums
- Ghosting (photography) is an effect resulting in semi-transparent objects in a stitched panorama image. In most cases these are persons who or vehicles which were moving while the different single photos were being taken. The methods for removing these artefacts from a panorama image are called "deghosting".
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