Ground

Ground may refer to:

• Earth's surface
• Soil, a mixture of clay, sand and organic matter present on the surface of the Earth and serving as substrate for plant growth and micro-organisms development
• Ground, in electrical engineering, something that is connected to the Earth or at the voltage defined as zero (in the U.S., called ground; in the UK, called earth):
  • Earthing system
  • Ground (electricity)
  • Ground and neutral
• Ground (often grounds), in law, a rational motive, basis for a belief or conviction, for an action taken, such as a legal action or argument; reason or cause:
  • Grounds for divorce
  • Grounds for dismissal
• Common ground, in communication, people sharing some common understanding
• Coffee grounds, ground coffee beans
• Socially grounded argument—in philosophy, arguments that take social conditions as their starting point
• Ground bass, in music, a bass part that continually repeats, while the melody and harmony over it change
• Ground tissue, one of the three types of tissue systems in a plant
• Ground term, in symbolic logic, a term with no variables
• Ground surface, often on metals, created by various grinding operations
• Football stadium
• Ground (unit), a unit of area used in India
• Ground a drawing surface or a coating applied to a substrate for a drawing surface
• The Ground, a 2005 album by Norwegian jazz pianist Tord Gustavsen