Grounding

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Ground, grounding or grounded may refer to:

• ground (electricity) describes the connection of part of an electrical circuit to an electrical ground.
• Grounding (Swissair) is a film about the collapse of Switzerland's national airline.
• symbol grounding (or symbol grounding problem) in cognition and artificial intelligence refers to how people represent knowledge about concepts.
• establishing ground truth.
• Grounding (punishment) is a punishment for children or teenagers by having restrictions placed on movement or privileges.

• A grounding can mean a low but general level of knowledge or understanding, such as in the phrase "A basic grounding in a subject".
• Grounding can mean returning to a fully-conscious state after a psychedelic experience.
• Grounding may describe the act of a ship colliding with ground beneath the surface of the water. Such a ship is said to have "run aground". If deliberate for maintenance, this may be called careening.
• Grounding may refer to the situation where aircraft are kept on the ground. This can be because of government action (as with USA civilian flights in September 2001) or because the airline is facing liquidation (as all Swissair flights were grounded in October 2001).
• Grounding may also refer to the ability to absorb energy through visualized "roots" descending from your into the ground. This ability uses Qi.
• "Grounded", a song by Soul Asylum from their 1990 album And the Horse They Rode in On

[edit] See also

• ground