ground connection
Americannoun
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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
The arrangement of these two springs is such that the ground connection will be broken until the subscriber's receiver is removed from its hook.
From Cyclopedia of Telephony and Telegraphy, Vol. 2 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. by McMeen, Samuel
The first of these groups consists of the springs 7 and 8, the function of which is to control the continuity of the ground connection at the subscriber's station.
From Cyclopedia of Telephony and Telegraphy, Vol. 2 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. by McMeen, Samuel
Your ground connection can go to a water pipe.
From Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son by Mills, John
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