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1Ground fighting — (in martial arts sometimes referred to as ground work or ground game ) is hand to hand combat which takes place while the combatants are on the ground, generally involving a degree of grappling. The term is commonly used in martial arts and… …
2Ground Instructor — is a certificate issued in the United States by the Federal Aviation Administration; the rules for certification, and for certificate holders, are detailed in Subpart I of Part 61 of the Federal Aviation Regulations, which are part of Title 14 of …
3Ground sloth — Ground sloths Temporal range: Oligocene Holocene Harlan s Ground Sloth (Paramylodon harlani), a mylodontid Scientific classification …
4Ground glass joint — Ground glass joints are used in laboratories to quickly and easily fit leak tight apparatus together from commonly available parts. For example, a round bottom flask, Liebig condenser, and oil bubbler with ground glass joints may be rapidly… …
5Ground support equipment — (GSE) is found at an airport, usually on the ramp, the servicing area by the terminal. This equipment is used to service the aircraft between flights. As its name implies, GSE is there to support the operations of aircraft on the ground. The… …
6Ground truth — is a term used in cartography, meteorology, analysis of aerial photographs, satellite imagery and a range of other remote sensing techniques in which data are gathered at a distance. Ground truth refers to information that is collected on… …
7Ground-Based Midcourse Defense — (GMD) is a component of the national missile defense strategy of the United States administered by the U.S. Missile Defense Agency. Previously known as National Missile Defense (NMD), the name was changed in 2002 to differentiate it from other… …
8Ground Zero (blues club) — Ground Zero is a blues club in Clarksdale, Mississippi that is co owned by Morgan Freeman, local attorney Bill Luckett, and Memphis entertainment executive Howard Stovall. It got its name from the fact that Clarksdale has been historically… …
9Ground improvements at British football stadia — A large number of English football clubs have ongoing schemes to redevelop existing grounds, or to move to newly constructed stadiums. A trend towards all seater stadiums was initially prescribed by the Taylor Report, and was originally a… …
10Ground effect vehicle — A ground effect vehicle, wing in ground effect vehicle (WIG), flarecraft, sea skimmer, ekranoplan, or wing in surface effect ship (WISE) is a vehicle that attains level flight near the surface of the Earth, made possible by a cushion of high… …
