different between keypress vs ghosting

English

Alternative forms

• key press

Etymology

key +? press

Pronunciation

Noun

keypress (plural keypresses)

1. The depression of an input key; a keystroke.
2. (computing) The buffered electrical signal resulting from such an event, sometimes distinguished from the release.

English

Etymology

ghost +? -ing

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??st??

Noun

ghosting (countable and uncountable, plural ghostings)

1. The practice of hiding prisoners from inspection from (possibly hostile) outside inspectors.
2. (electronics, television) The blurry appearance of a television picture resulting from interference caused by multipath reception.
3. (computing) 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.
7. (slang) A method of ending a personal relationship by stopping any contact with the other party and not providing an explanation. [from 2014]

8. The phenomenon of the writing on one side of a page in a notebook being partly visible on the other side.

Translations

Verb

ghosting

1. present participle of ghost

Further reading

• ghosting on Wikipedia.Wikipedia