Mein Fachwörterbuch liefert auch die Schuko socket oder German three-wire-socket

Schuko ist eine ältere deutsche Abkürzung für Schutzkontakt. Es treffen also die angegebenen Übersetzungen zu.

I always called 3 pronged plugs or outlets grounded, but I see the correct term is grounding.

Is schuko-socket really understood outside Germany?
Do they have grounded sockets at all in the US/UK?
Just interested..

earthed socket and earthed plug is quite commonly used

wird im Messewesen so übersetzt

Wie Eva schon sagt:
Schuko socket oder German three-wire-socket

Zumindest, falls der benoetigte Stecker wirklich passen soll.

grounding outlet (plug) beschreibt nur allgemein den Typ, und mag einen Englaender/Amerikaner dazu bringen, die ihm bekannte nationale Variante zu probieren. Passt dann natuerlich nicht.

SCHUKO traegt uebrigens das "R" im Kreis und ist somit registrierte ...hmm Handelsmarke?

Genormt ist die Dose auch, siehe wohl DIN 49440

"earth" - "ground": once again, a US / UK issue. I first ran into this one when I purchased my MGB-GT (British sports car) and the user's manual discussed "positive earth" and I didn't know what they were talking about at first.

The expression "earth[ed]" in connection with electronics is unknown in the US. The expression used here is ground, grounded plug, grounding wire, and so on.

And yes, of course we have grounded sockets here in the U.S., or we would all have haircuts like Einstein's.

The rules in the U.K. seem even stricter than our rules concerning grounding, from what I recall from the apartments (UK:flats) in London.

The word "Schuko" is unknown here.

Fuer K.T.
In US there are grounded plugs too. All pins are facing in the same direction. The two phases are flat pins, the ground pin is a stab. but you can get shocked like Einstein by releaseing it uncarfully. Schuko is only known to be used in Germany.
Some Americans call it easily "Grounded Plug".

uuups ...

meine Antwort kommt wohl etwas spät...
sorry.

Macht nix, Katiusia, ein weiterer Beitrag kann nur helfen.
When I worked on technical manuals involving Generators and the different outlets they had depending on the global market, the German outlets were referred to as Schuko outlets, and the plugs as Schuko plugs.
Now - I do know two different types of plugs from when I was growing up in Germany. One was the straight line that didn't actually fill in the entire round outlet, it was a horizontal line plug, and the other type filled in the entire outlet and had metal parts on the sides, which made contact with the metal on the outlet itself for ground/earth. Then again, the house I grew up is now probably over 100 years old.
I didn't know Schuko is branded. I was always told it stands for Schutz-Kontakt. Interesting.

To be unspecific about type, I suggest simply "earthed power socket", "earthed power outlet", "grounded power socket" or "grounded power outlet" as familiar options.

In a translation, if you want to specify the type, always ask the client first - "Type F" for example is purely German, and is incompatible with "Type E" (French), for example, even though both are "earthed sockets". All of my computers bought within the last 10 years (I'm living in Germany) have so far come with a PHP-206 Europe Standard plug, which will fit into both French and German power sockets (has a hole to accept the male earth pin sticking out of the French sockets). Traditional German Schuko plugs won't plug into the French sockets because they won't accept the male pin. You can probably force a traditional French plug into a German socket, but firstly you will bend the socket's earth contacts out of shape, and secondly it still won't be earthed, 'cos it doesn't have the contacts on the sides.

Gracious me... was I raving?