Grounding

Grounding or grounded may refer to:

Science and philosophy

• Grounding (metaphysics), a topic of wide philosophical interest
• Grounding, a strategy for coping with stress or other negative emotions
• Grounding in communication, the collection of mutual knowledge, beliefs, and assumptions; "common ground"
• Ground (electricity), a common return path for electric current
• Symbol grounding problem, a problem in cognition and artificial intelligence

Arts and media

• Grounded (comics), a comic book by Mark Sable for Image Comics
• Grounded (opera), 2023 opera by Jeanine Tesori (music) and George Brant (libretto)
• Grounded (video game), a multiplayer survival game by Obsidian Entertainment
• "Superman: Grounded" a storyline in the Superman comic book, written by J. Michael Straczynski
• Grounding (film), 2006 film about the collapse of the airline Swissair
• Unaccompanied Minors, a 2006 Christmas film that was titled Grounded in the UK and Ireland
• "Grounded", a song by Lower Than Atlantis from World Record
• "Grounded", a song by My Vitriol
• "Grounded", a song by Soul Asylum from the 1990 album And the Horse They Rode In On
• "Grounded", a song by Ross Jennings from the 2021 album A Shadow of My Future Self
• "Grounding", an interdisciplinary performance project by artist Gita Hashemi
• "Grounded" (Star Trek: Lower Decks), 2022 television episode

Other uses

• Grounding (discipline technique), restrictions placed on movement, privileges, or both as punishment
• Grounding, or earthing, a pseudoscientific practice that involves people grounding themselves to the Earth for health benefits
• Grounding Inc, a video game development company
• Aircraft grounding, a restriction to prevent malfunctioning aircraft from flying
• Intentional grounding, a rule violation in gridiron football
• Ship grounding, a type of marine accident

See also

• Ground (disambiguation)
• Ground truth
• Grind (disambiguation)