COMMON FAULT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does common fault mean? 

• COMMON FAULT (noun)
  The noun COMMON FAULT has 1 sense:

1. an inclined fault in which the hanging wall appears to have slipped downward relative to the footwall

  Familiarity information: COMMON FAULT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMMON FAULT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An inclined fault in which the hanging wall appears to have slipped downward relative to the footwall

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

common fault; gravity fault; normal fault

Hypernyms ("common fault" is a kind of...):

inclined fault (a geological fault in which one side is above the other)

 Context examples 

Professor Murray will, I am sure, excuse me if I say that he has the common fault of most Englishmen of being inaudible.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)