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
Secondly, the ground connection to the central heating radiator was no good because it was winter and the radiator was hot so it presented a very high resistance!
From The Dawn of Amateur Radio in the U.K. and Greece: a personal view by Joly, Norman F.
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
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
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