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
Such an arrester brings a ground connection close to plates connected with the line and is adapted to protect apparatus either connected across a metallic circuit or in series with a single wire circuit.
From Cyclopedia of Telephony & Telegraphy Vol. 1 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. by Miller, Kempster
In this figure the line conductors are connected to binding posts 1 and 2, and a ground connection is made to binding Page 247 post 3.
From Cyclopedia of Telephony & Telegraphy Vol. 1 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. by Miller, Kempster
Instead of the ground connection there is a second antenna.—one antenna on each side of the spark-gap.
From The Story of Great Inventions by Burns, Elmer Ellsworth
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