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Fault n. : Defect; want; lack; default.

Fault n. : Anything that fails, that is wanting, or that impairs excellence; a failing; a defect; a blemish.

Fault n. : A moral failing; a defect or dereliction from duty; a deviation from propriety; an offense less serious than a crime.

Fault n. : A dislocation of the strata of the vein.

Fault n. : In coal seams, coal rendered worthless by impurities in the seam; as, slate fault, dirt fault, etc.

Fault n. : A lost scent; act of losing the scent.

Fault n. : Failure to serve the ball into the proper court.

Fault v. t. : To charge with a fault; to accuse; to find fault with; to blame.

Fault v. t. : To interrupt the continuity of (rock strata) by displacement along a plane of fracture; -- chiefly used in the p. p.; as, the coal beds are badly faulted.

Fault v. i. : To err; to blunder, to commit a fault; to do wrong.

Example:
How to determine Fault in an accident and is Fault sharable?

Taxonomy
fault, rock, slip, dip, fault plane, Strike-slip faults, thrust faults, hanging wall, footwall, oblique, the slip, dip slip, fault rocks, reverse fault, fracture, fault zones, heave, strain.

Defination from the web:
 

synonyms
  (noun) mistake
  (noun) error
  (noun) defect
  (noun) flaw
  (noun) demerit
  (noun) faulting
  (noun) geological fault
  (noun) shift
  (noun) fracture
  (noun) break
  (noun) breakdown
  (noun) cleft
  (noun) crack
  (noun) crevice
  (noun) equipment failure
  (noun) fissure
  (noun) imperfection
  (noun) imperfectness
  (noun) nonaccomplishment
  (noun) nonachievement
  (noun) responsibility
  (noun) responsibleness
  (noun) scissure
  (noun) serve
  (noun) service
  (noun) worth
  (verb) blame
  (verb) accuse
  (verb) charge
antonyms
  (noun) merit
  (verb) absolve


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