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We have several tags that are synonymous: , , . 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, 2019 at 21:31
  • \$\begingroup\$ Awesome, thanks \$\endgroup\$
    – Voltage Spike Mod
    May 23, 2019 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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    \$\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 Mod
    May 17, 2019 at 19:20
  • \$\begingroup\$ Grounding, earthing yup more than likely used interchangeably here (or PE). Earth... Too often used instead of reference \$\endgroup\$
    – user16222
    May 18, 2019 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...

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