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"Grounding a connector" means you join a connector in a circuit to another point in the circuit that is definitely at ground potential.

This is done mainly when testing a circuit, to be sure that a particular point in that circuit really is at ground potential if you are not certain that it is already.

Alternatively, you could be doing a test to temporarily ground a connector that is not normally at ground potential, to see what effect doing the test has on the behavior of the circuit.

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