We have several tags that are synonymous: ground, grounding, earthing. At the least we should roll grounding and earthing into the same tag. What do you think?
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\$\begingroup\$ I've merged earthing and grounding, and left ground alone for now. \$\endgroup\$ – W5VO♦ May 23 at 21:31
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\$\begingroup\$ Awesome, thanks \$\endgroup\$ – Voltage Spike May 23 at 21:48
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Grounding and Earthing are probably used interchangeably on this site and I agree they could be merged, possibly after looking at some statistics which I don't know how to do.
I think there's a big difference between questions about ground and questions about grounding. They are not synonyms, and if they are used as such, the questions should be re-tagged with the correct one.
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1\$\begingroup\$ If so I think grounding could be kept and earthing be merged with grounding. I also think we could keep ground as is. \$\endgroup\$ – Voltage Spike May 17 at 19:20
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\$\begingroup\$ Grounding, earthing yup more than likely used interchangeably here (or PE). Earth... Too often used instead of reference \$\endgroup\$ – JonRB May 18 at 14:34
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While most circuits have a "ground" reference, not everything is grounded to Earth. Thus they aren't necessarily synonymous.
Common bench power supplies may have both "ground" (-) and "Earth" (green) jacks, but coupling them may be optional, since they are not the same thing.
Maybe that's not enough to keep the tags separate though...
