fault fissure

  • 1fault — Synonyms and related words: aberrancy, aberration, abysm, abyss, accountability, accountable, accuse, answerability, answerable, arroyo, at fault, atrocity, bad habit, besetting sin, birthmark, blackhead, blame, blameworthy, bleb, blemish,… …

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  • 2Fissure — A cleft or groove. A fissure can be normal or abnormal. A fissure in the cerebral cortex is a normal feature. It is a deep fold that involves the entire thickness of the brain wall. A fissure in the anus is distinctly abnormal. It is a painful… …

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  • 3fissure — noun the flood was blamed on an unreported fissure in the dam Syn: opening, crevice, crack, cleft, breach, crevasse, chasm; break, fracture, fault, rift, rupture, split …

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  • 4fissure — Synonyms and related words: abysm, abyss, amputate, arachnoid, arbor vitae, archipallium, arroyo, ax, between brain, bisect, box canyon, brain stem, breach, break, break open, break up, breakage, broach, burst, bust, butcher, caesura, canyon,… …

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  • 5fissure — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. cleft, chink, opening, crack, rift, breach. See interval. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. gap, cleft, crevice; see hole 1 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. cleft, crack, groove, crevice, crevasse, crack,… …

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  • 6geological fault — noun (geology) a crack in the earth s crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other they built it right over a geological fault he studied the faulting of the earth s crust • Syn: ↑fault, ↑faulting, ↑shift, ↑fracture …

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  • 7зміщувач — сместитель plane of fault displacement, fault fissure *Gleitebene, Sprungkluft площина (поверхня, зона) по якій виникло розчленування товщі порід на блоки й подальше їх відносне переміщення …

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  • 8rift — I (disagreement) noun argument, break, clash, contention, controversy, difference, disceptation, dispute, estrangement, fight, misunderstanding, parting, split, variance II (gap) noun aperture, breach, break, chasm, chink, cleft, crack, cranny,… …

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  • 9abyss — Synonyms and related words: Bassalia, Gehenna, Sheol, Tophet, abysm, abyssal zone, arroyo, bathyal zone, benthos, bottom waters, bottomless depths, box canyon, breach, break, canyon, cavity, chap, chasm, check, chimney, chink, cleft, cleuch,… …

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  • 10canyon — Synonyms and related words: abysm, abyss, arroyo, box canyon, breach, break, cavity, chap, chasm, check, chimney, chink, cleft, cleuch, clough, col, coulee, couloir, crack, cranny, crevasse, crevice, cut, cwm, defile, dell, dike, ditch, donga,… …

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