fault (noun)
121rotary fault — noun : a fracture in the earth s crust in which the displacement of rock is downward at one point and upward at another point along the strike called also pivotal fault …
122rotational fault — noun : rotary fault …
123scissors fault — noun : a geological fault in which there is increasing displacement along the strike from an initial point of no displacement …
124transverse fault — noun : an extended dip fault …
125transform fault — noun : a strike slip fault that ends abruptly at a point where its displacement translates into the movement of another feature, that occurs typically between segments of a midocean ridge or other tectonic plate boundary, and that is… …
126comma fault — noun Date: circa 1934 comma splice …
127foot fault — noun Date: 1886 an infraction of the service rules (as in tennis, racquetball, or volleyball) that results from illegal placement of the server s feet • footfault intransitive verb …
128page fault — noun An alert (such as an interrupt or exception) indicating that a page of memory was accessed without being loaded …