Earth definition

Earth means sand, gravel, rock, soil or construction aggregate produced by quarrying, crushing or any other mining activity or such other naturally-occurring unconsolidated materials that normally mask the bedrock.
Earth means the general mass of the earth;
Earth means any kind of earth sold, conveyed or otherwise dealt with in the course of trade and includes earth used, or intended to be used, or capable of being used, for filling purposes or for agricultural, horticultural or gardening purposes;

Examples of Earth in a sentence

  • Earth electrode shall not be installed in proximity to a metal fence.

  • ALIEN OWNERSHIP Earth station applicants not proposing to provide broadcast, common carrier, aeronautical en route or aeronautical fixed radio station services are not required to respond to Items 30−34.

  • The product range will span from large machineries like Earth Movers and Concrete Mixers, to even the smallest items like road studs.

  • From distribution boards Neutral & Earth wires shall be run for every circuit.

  • Earth work in Excavation : Excavation shall be strictly as shown in the plans.


More Definitions of Earth

Earth means soil, defined as a three-phase system comprised of various combinations of naturally derived solids including fine to coarse-grained rocks and minerals, organic matter (including living organisms), weathered rock, and precipitates.
Earth means any rock, stone, quartz, clay, sand and gravel and the alluvial or residual of any rock, stone, quartz, clay, sand, soil and gravel;
Earth means the conductive mass of the Earth whose electric potential at any point is conventionally taken as zero;
Earth means sand, gravel, rock, loam, soil, fill, or construction aggregate.
Earth means ground that can be removed by hand using pickaxe and spade, and includes loose gravel, clay, made-up ground, loose or soft shale, loose ouklip, and boulders less than 75mm in diameter.
Earth means all ground other than that classified as “hard rock” or “soft rock” and shall include
Earth s crust" means the upper layer of the ground accessible for human activity on land, in transboundary water bodies, on the territorial sea, in inland maritime waters and in the exclusive economic zone;