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Ground - Definition and Overview |
| Related Words: Abyss, Acres, Affirmation, Agora, Airspace, Alluvium, Ambition, Amphitheater, Angle, Antecedent, Area, Arena, Argument, Aspiration, Assertion, Assumption, Auditorium |
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The word ground has several meanings:
- 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 US, called ground; in the UK, called earth)
- In philosophy, socially grounded arguments are those which take as their starting point social conditions.
- In music, a ground bass is a bass part that continually repeats, while the melody and harmony over it change.
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