Noun

Singular ghosting

Plural uncountable

ghosting (uncountable)

1. The practice of hiding prisoners from inspection from (possibly hostile) outside inspectors.
2. The effect that interference caused by a multi-path reception problem has on a television screen.
3. 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.