Ground
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Cite This SourceGround may refer to:
- The surface of the Earth
- Soil, a mixture of sand and organic material present on the surface of the Earth
- Ground (electricity), in electrical engineering, something that is connected to the Earth or at the voltage defined as zero (in the U.S., called ground; in the UK, called earth). See:
- In surveying, Ground refers to a unit of land approximately equal to 223.2 square meters or 0.0551 acres. This unit is widely used in the Indian real estate parlance.
- In philosophy, socially grounded arguments are those which take as their starting point social conditions
- Ground bass, in music, a bass part that continually repeats, while the melody and harmony over it change
- Ground tissue, one of the three types of tissue systems in a plant
- Lace ground, the mesh surrounding the design
- To punish a child by prohibiting them from leaving home and/or restricting other privileges for a specified time period
- To prohibit a pilot or airplane from flying, such as the national ground stop on September 11, 2001 in the United States.
- In symbolic logic, a "ground term" is a term with no variables
- A Football stadium
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