FAULTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does faulting mean? 

• FAULTING (noun)
  The noun FAULTING has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: FAULTING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAULTING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

break; fault; faulting; fracture; geological fault; shift

Context example:

he studied the faulting of the earth's crust

Hypernyms ("faulting" is a kind of...):

cleft; crack; crevice; fissure; scissure (a long narrow opening)

Meronyms (parts of "faulting"):

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 "faulting"):

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)

 Context examples 

This active faulting is consistent with the recent finding that Mercury’s global magnetic field has existed for billions of years and with the slow cooling of Mercury’s still hot outer core.

(The Incredible Shrinking Mercury is Active After All, NASA)