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ground connection

American  

noun

Electricity.
  1. the conductor used to establish a ground.


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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 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

Your ground connection can go to a water pipe.

From Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son by Mills, John

I ran a secret ground connection, and opened the circuit on the Lexington end.

From History of Morgan's Cavalry by Duke, Basil Wilson

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