fault (noun)
81double fault — noun count in tennis, a situation in which a player loses a point by doing two bad SERVES one after the other …
82foot fault — ► NOUN ▪ (in tennis, squash, etc.) an infringement of the rules made by overstepping the baseline when serving …
83trough fault — noun (geology) A pair of parallel faults with downthrow between them • • • Main Entry: ↑trough …
84inclined fault — noun a geological fault in which one side is above the other • Hypernyms: ↑fault, ↑faulting, ↑geological fault, ↑shift, ↑fracture, ↑break • Hyponyms: ↑normal fault, ↑gravity …
85geological 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 …
86San Andreas Fault — noun a major geological fault in California; runs from San Diego to San Francisco; the source of serious earthquakes • Instance Hypernyms: ↑fault, ↑faulting, ↑geological fault, ↑shift, ↑fracture, ↑break • Part Holonyms: ↑ …
87common fault — noun an inclined fault in which the hanging wall appears to have slipped downward relative to the footwall • Syn: ↑normal fault, ↑gravity fault • Hypernyms: ↑inclined fault …
88tear fault — noun Etymology: tear (IV) : a fault occurring in the rocks above a low angle thrust fault and striking approximately at right angles to the strike of the thrust fault * * * tear fault «tair», Geology. a big crevice left by a landslide …
89Denali Fault — noun a major open geological fault in Alaska • Instance Hypernyms: ↑fault, ↑faulting, ↑geological fault, ↑shift, ↑fracture, ↑break • Part Holonyms: ↑Alaska, ↑Last Frontier, ↑ …
90distributive fault — noun : one of two or more closely associated parallel geologic faults called also step fault * * * distributive fault, Geology. a fault in which the displacement is distributed among several parallel planes at short distances from one another… …
