• n.
    ⦿(geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
    lexical concept
  • he studied the faulting of the earth's crust
  • they built it right over a geological fault

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechnoun
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:break
  2. enl:fault
  3. enl:faulting
  4. enl:fracture
  5. enl:geological fault
  6. enl:shift
wn:interlingual indexili:i85385

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skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:label
  • breakfaultfaultingfracturegeological faultshift
  • faultinggeological fault