Phrase Hound found 20 phrases and 9 compound words that contain faults. The most common are listed below. Open faults in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 20
- active faultsplural of active fault: A geologic fault which has exhibited seismic activity within a geologically recent time period.
- electrical faultsplural of electrical fault: A defect that forms from a fault current.
- thrust faultsplural of thrust fault: A type of reverse fault in which the angle that the hanging wall makes with the horizontal is less than 45 degrees.
- transform faultsplural of transform fault: A type of strike-slip fault occurring at the border between two tectonic plates which are sliding horizontally in directions parallel with the fault line.
- strike-slip faultsplural of strike-slip fault: A fault where two blocks move horizontally in opposite directions along the fault line.
- San Andreas faultsplural of San Andreas fault
- arc faultsplural of arc fault: An undesired and uncontrolled electric arc from one conductor through the air (or other gas) to a conductor at ground potential or a different voltage phase.
- double faultsplural of double fault: The missing of both the first serve and second serve, resulting in a point for the receiver.
- foot faultsplural of foot fault: In certain sports, as in tennis or long jump, a fault in which the athlete's foot is in the wrong place at the wrong time.
- locked faultsplural of locked fault: A fault that does not slip due to high friction. Such faults accumulate stress which is finally released as an earthquake.
- normal faultsplural of normal fault: A type of fault in which the footwall moves up relative to the hanging wall.
- page faultsplural of page fault: An alert (such as an interrupt or exception) indicating that a page of memory was accessed without being loaded.
- pick-faultsplural of pick-fault: A critic; a censorious person.
- reverse faultsplural of reverse fault: A type of fault in which the hanging wall moves up relative to the footwall.
- time faultsplural of time fault: A penalty given in which a rider does not complete the course in the time allowed that is set by the course designer.
- triple faultsplural of triple fault: An exception thrown by the CPU while trying to handle a double fault, typically resulting in immediate rebooting.
- segmentation faultsplural of segmentation fault: A software error that occurs when a program attempts to access a memory location that it is not permitted to access.
- blind thrust faultsplural of blind thrust fault: A type of thrust fault, which does not appear on the surface, being completely hidden underneath ductile surface rock layers
- sinistral faultsplural of sinistral fault: A strike-slip fault that shows left lateral movement.
- dextral faultsplural of dextral fault: A strike-slip fault that shows right lateral movement.
Compound words 9
- segfaultsplural of segfault: A segmentation fault.
- subfaultsplural of subfault: A subsidiary fault
- downfaultsplural of downfault: A graben (area sunken relative to surrounding land).
- faultsmenplural of faultsman: A worker who identifies and repairs faults in a telephone network.
- footfaultsthird-person singular simple present indicative of footfault: To commit a foot fault.
- microfaultsplural of microfault: A tiny fault bigger than one crystal grain.
- pseudofaultsplural of pseudofault: A feature resembling a fault but resulting from other factors such as weathering or the spreading of ridges.
- redefaultsplural of redefault: A default on a mortgage which has already been modified due to borrower hardship
- findfaultsplural of findfault: A faultfinder.