bootleg ground

English

Etymology

bootleg (“fake”) +‎ ground (“earthing”)

Noun

bootleg ground (plural bootleg grounds)

(US) A type of false ground (earth) in electrical circuits, created by wiring the grounding circuit (green wire, bare copper wire) to the neutral circuit (cold wire, white wire).

Hypernyms

false ground

Translations

Translations

German: die klassische Nullung

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