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ghost image

noun

Etymology

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

Definitions

  1. Any undesired image appearing at the image plane of an optical system

    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.

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

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for ghost image. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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