fault line

1. 1.

   (geology) line determined by the intersection of a geological fault and the earth's surface

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Questions about fault line

What does fault line mean?

fault line means "(geology) line determined by the intersection of a geological fault and the earth's surface".

Is fault line a common word?

fault line is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.