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ghost image en · NOUN · etymology 1

Etymology

From ghost (noun sense 3, via noun sense 4).

Meanings

  1. Any undesired image appearing at the image plane of an optical system; either a false image of the desired object, or an out-of-focus image of a bright source of light in the field of the optical system.

Forms

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Translations (3)

fi haamukuva (undesired image) · hu szellemkép (undesired image) · fr image fantôme (undesired image)

ghost image en · NOUN · etymology 2

Etymology

After the Norton Ghost disk-cloning and backup software tool, itself an initialism of general hardware-oriented system transfer.

Meanings

  1. A copy of all the contents of a hard drive, used as a backup.

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wikipedia: Ghost (disk utility)