ghosting

noun8

1. •
   (informal) 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 ghosting can end a friendship as well.
2. •
   The blurry appearance of a television picture resulting from interference caused by multipath reception.
3. •
   The phenomenon of the writing on one side of a page in a notebook being partly visible on the other side.
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. •
   A problem with a keyboard where certain simultaneous keypresses trigger the action of a further key that was not in fact pressed.

   • Examine your matrix map, and make sure that no three keystrokes form a rectangle with a fourth keystroke that will cause you problems. This prevents both ghosting and blocking. — 2011
6. •
   (slang) The act or habit of exhaling vape smoke slowly, to prevent others from noticing.
7. •
   Ghost imaging.
8. •
   The practice of hiding prisoners from inspection by outside inspectors.

   • Their hastily fabricated Potemkin village was practically deserted, what with all the ghosting.