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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other;
- Example: "they built it right over a geological fault"
- Example: "he studied the faulting of the earth's crust"
[syn: fault, faulting, geological fault, shift, fracture, break]



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

geological fault
    n 1: (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,
         geological fault, shift, fracture, break]