Ghosting

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 (medical imaging), a visual artifact that occurs in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans
• 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

Music

• "Ghosting" (song), a song by Joe Bermudez
• "Ghostin", a song by Ariana Grande
• "Ghosting", a song by Mother Mother from the 2008 album O My Heart

Video games

• Ghosting (strategy), a way of playing a video game that emphasizes stealthiness
• Ghosting, a form of cheating in online games

See also

• Ghosting: The Spirit of Christmas, a 2019 American Christmas television film
• Ghost (disambiguation)
• Ghost image (disambiguation)
• Ghostwriting, the practice of producing written material that is credited to another person
• Ghost riding, a dance performed outside one's moving automobile