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
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 bell battery was found, the ground connection made with a bit of copper wire stripped from one of the state-rooms, and Ford quickly adjusted the delicate spring of the tiny field relay.
From Empire Builders by Hambidge, Jay
Maybe there was a ground connection of some kind, if not by the wire.
From The Radio Boys Trailing a Voice or, Solving a Wireless Mystery by Chapman, Allen
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