GHOST IMAGE

  

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GHOST IMAGE

Specialty Definition: GHOST IMAGE

DomainDefinition

Electrical Engineering

A defect, apparent in reproduction, in which an additional outline, or ghost, or succession of outlines, or multiple image, of prominent features of a picture may be observed displaced from the correct position of the outline by a noticeable amount. Source: European Union. (references)

Health

A fainter second image of the object you are viewing. (references)

Industry

Secondary image of an object seen by transmission through a glazing unit caused by internal reflections within the unit. The intensity of this defect depends on the angle of the glazing unit and the angle between the surfaces. It appears particularly when viewing light sources in dark surroundings. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: GHOST IMAGE

DomainTitle

Books

  • Ghost Image (Sun & Moon Classics, No 93) (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: GHOST IMAGE

Photos:
GHOST IMAGE

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: GHOST IMAGE

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

ghost image

91

ghost image rider

9

ghost image real

5

norton ghost image

4

ghost image recon

3

clone disk disk ghost image local only symantec

3

disk ghost image

3

cd ghost image size span

3

ghost image picture

2

create ghost image

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: GHOST IMAGE

Language Translations for "GHOST IMAGE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

spøgelsesbillede (double image, ghost, multiple image, phantom), ekkobillede (double image, echo image, ghost, multiple image), dobbelt billede. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

geest (fairy, ghost, intellect, mind, phantom, soul, spirit), schijnbeeld, reflexie (echo image, ghost, multiple image), echobeeld (echo image, ghost, multiple image), echo (Echo). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

haamukuva (double image, echo image, ghost, multiple image). (various references)

   

French

  

réflexion (ghost), image secondaire (ghost), image fantôme (ghost), double vision, écho (ghost). (various references)

   

German

  

Geisterbild (double image, echo image, ghost, multiple image, phantom), Reflexion (cerebration, reflection), Echo (echo, response), Doppelbild (ghost). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

παρασιτική εικόνα, φαντασμική εικόνα, είδωλο εικόνας (double image, echo image, ghost, multiple image), διπλή εικόνα. (various references)

   

Italian

  

immagine multipla (echo image, ghost, multiple image). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ostghay imageay

   

Portuguese

  

visão dupla, imagem fantasma, imagem dupla (double image, echo image, ghost, multiple image), fantasma (apparition, bogle, bugaboo, bugbear, eidolon, ghost, golliwog, haunt, hob, leprechaun, phantasm, shadow, spectre, spirit, spook, wraith). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

imagen múltiple (echo image, ghost, multiple image), imagen fantasma (echo image, ghost, multiple image), fantasma (bogey, bogie, ghost, hallucination, phantasm, phantom, shade, shadow, spectre, spook, wraith), eco (echo, re echo, replication, reverberation), doble imagen. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

spökbild (ghost), dubbelfel (double fall-back). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: GHOST IMAGE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-g-g-h-i-m-o-s-t"

-2 letters: hemagogs, megahits, oghamist.

-3 letters: amosite, atheism, atomies, atomise, egotism, gamiest, goatish, hemagog, hoagies, hoggets, hogties, homages, homiest, hostage, imagoes, isagoge, maggots, megahit, moggies, ohmages, sigmate, staggie.

-4 letters: ageism, ageist, aggies, amigos, egoism, egoist, eights, gamest, geisha, gemots, gigots, haggis, hoagie, hogget, hogtie, homage, images, imagos, maggot, magots, mahoes, mashie, mights, misate, miseat, moggie.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Usage: Commercial
2. Images: Slideshow
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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