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    GEOLOGICAL FAULT

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the otherplay

    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)

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