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ALL meanings of fault plane

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  • noun fault plane a defect or imperfection; flaw; failing: a fault in the brakes; a fault in one's character. 1
  • noun fault plane responsibility for failure or a wrongful act: It is my fault that we have not finished. 1
  • noun fault plane an error or mistake: a fault in addition. 1
  • noun fault plane a misdeed or transgression: to confess one's faults. 1
  • noun fault plane Sports. a ball that when served does not land in the proper section of an opponent's court. a failure to serve the ball according to the rules, as from within a certain area. 1
  • noun fault plane Geology, Mining. a break in the continuity of a body of rock or of a vein, with dislocation along the plane of the fracture (fault plane) 1
  • noun fault plane Manège. (of a horse jumping in a show) any of a number of improper executions in negotiating a jump, as a tick, knockdown, refusal, or run-out. 1
  • noun fault plane Electricity. a partial or total local failure in the insulation or continuity of a conductor or in the functioning of an electric system. 1
  • noun fault plane Hunting. a break in the line of scent; a losing of the scent; check. 1
  • noun fault plane Obsolete. lack; want. 1
  • verb without object fault plane to commit a fault; blunder; err. 1
  • verb without object fault plane Geology. to undergo faulting. 1
  • verb with object fault plane Geology. to cause a fault in. 1
  • verb with object fault plane to find fault with, blame, or censure. 1
  • idioms fault plane at fault, open to censure; blameworthy: to be at fault for a mistake. in a dilemma; puzzled: to be at fault as to where to go. (of hounds) unable to find the scent. 1
  • idioms fault plane find fault, to seek and make known defects or flaws; complain; criticize: He constantly found fault with my behavior. 1
  • idioms fault plane to a fault, to an extreme degree; excessively: She was generous to a fault. 1
  • noun fault plane (geology) The plane, or surface formed between the two rock blocks that slip one with the other during an earthquake. The edge of the fault plane can often be seen on the land as a fault line. 0
  • noun fault plane the plane along which a fault line occurs 0
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