san andreas fault

1. 1.

   a major geological fault in California; runs from San Diego to San Francisco; the source of serious earthquakes

   Broaderfault

   Part ofCalifornia

Questions about san andreas fault

What does san andreas fault mean?

san andreas fault means "a major geological fault in California; runs from San Diego to San Francisco; the source of serious earthquakes".

Is san andreas fault a common word?

san andreas fault 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.