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GEOLOGICAL FAULT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
Example:
he studied the faulting of the earth's crust
Synonyms:
break; fault; faulting; fracture; geological fault; shift
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("geological fault" is a kind of...):
cleft; crack; crevice; fissure; scissure (a long narrow opening)
Meronyms (parts of "geological fault"):
fault line ((geology) line determined by the intersection of a geological fault and the earth's surface)
Domain category:
geology (a science that deals with the history of the earth as recorded in rocks)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "geological fault"):
inclined fault (a geological fault in which one side is above the other)
strike-slip fault (a geological fault in which one of the adjacent surfaces appears to have moved horizontally)
Instance hyponyms:
Denali Fault (a major open geological fault in Alaska)
San Andreas Fault (a major geological fault in California; runs from San Diego to San Francisco; the source of serious earthquakes)
