Ghosting

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Ghosting may refer to:

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  • 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.

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