ground connection
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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The ground connection is broken before the charged rod is removed, leaving the sphere with an excess charge opposite to that of the rod.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
While the cause might have been a faulty alternator, or even a loose ground connection, it turned out to be a faulty new battery.
From Time Magazine Archive
Make a thoroughly good ground connection with leaders, have all joints well soldered, and you may dispense with the rod as you propose.
All this work took some time, and it was nearly dark when they had made all their connections, including the ground connection to a water pipe.
From The Radio Boys' First Wireless Or Winning the Ferberton Prize by Chapman, Allen
The ground connection is made by soldering a wire to a cold water pipe.
From Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America
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