ghosting

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

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