ghosting

noun

1. The practice of hiding prisoners from inspection from (possibly hostile) outside inspectors.

2. The effect that interference caused by a multipath 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.

5. (computing) A problem with a keyboard where certain simultaneous keypresses trigger the action of a further key that was not in fact pressed.

6. (slang) Method of ending the personal relationship by stopping any contact with the other party and not providing an explanation

- Stories of ghosting are almost always romantic in nature, but it's worth mentioning that friend ghosting is real, and sometimes necessary.