"ground wire" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: ground wires [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} ground wire (plural ground wires)
  1. (electricity) A wire that connects a circuit to ground. Categories (topical): Electricity Synonyms: grounding wire Translations (Translations): 地線 (Chinese Cantonese), 地线 (dei⁶ sin³) (Chinese Cantonese), 水線 (Chinese Cantonese), 水线 (seoi² sin³) (Chinese Cantonese), 地線 (Chinese Mandarin), 地线 (dìxiàn) (Chinese Mandarin), 接地線 (Chinese Mandarin), 接地线 (jiēdìxiàn) (Chinese Mandarin), maadoitusjohto (Finnish), maajohto (Finnish), maattojohto (Finnish), prise de terre [feminine] (French), アース線 (āsu sen) (Japanese), przewód uziemiający [masculine] (Polish), fio-terra (Portuguese)

Inflected forms

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