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 Dictionary entry overview: What does grounding mean? 

• GROUNDING (noun)
  The noun GROUNDING has 2 senses:

1. education or instruction in the fundamentals of a field of knowledge

2. fastening electrical equipment to earth

  Familiarity information: GROUNDING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GROUNDING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Education or instruction in the fundamentals of a field of knowledge

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

foundation; grounding

Context example:

a good grounding in mathematics

Hypernyms ("grounding" is a kind of...):

education (knowledge acquired by learning and instruction)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Fastening electrical equipment to earth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

earthing; grounding

Hypernyms ("grounding" is a kind of...):

attachment; fastening (the act of fastening things together)

Derivation:

ground (connect to a ground)

 Context examples 

Many Antarctic glaciers extend for miles beyond their grounding lines, floating out over the open ocean.

(Huge Cavity in Antarctic Glacier Signals Rapid Decay, NASA)

This meltwater is leaking across the grounding line where the ice shelf meets the ocean.

(Previously unsuspected volcanic activity confirmed under West Antarctic Ice Sheet at Pine Island Glacier, National Science Foundation)

The point on a glacier where it first loses contact with land is called the grounding line.

(West Antarctic Glacier loss appears unstoppable, NASA)

They talked on; she, in her gently persistent way, returning always to the need of thorough grounding in education and to the advantages of Latin as part of the foundation for any career.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

In the absence of a grounding connection, it is the current that could flow from any conductive part or the surface of non-conductive parts to ground if a conductive path was available (such as a human body).

(Device Electrical Current Leakage Problem Evaluation Result, Food and Drug Administration)

When this happens, the grounding line retreats inland.

(Huge Cavity in Antarctic Glacier Signals Rapid Decay, NASA)

Nearly all glacier melt occurs on the underside of the glacier beyond the grounding line, on the section floating on seawater.

(West Antarctic Glacier loss appears unstoppable, NASA)

In this region, as the tide rises and falls, the grounding line retreats and advances across a zone of about 2 to 3 miles (3 to 5 kilometers).

(Huge Cavity in Antarctic Glacier Signals Rapid Decay, NASA)

The Antarctic glaciers studied by Rignot's group have thinned so much they are now floating above places where they used to sit solidly on land, which means their grounding lines are retreating inland.

(West Antarctic Glacier loss appears unstoppable, NASA)

Another changing feature is a glacier's grounding line - the place near the edge of the continent where it lifts off its bed and starts to float on seawater.

(Huge Cavity in Antarctic Glacier Signals Rapid Decay, NASA)