faulting

as inshift
as indepreciate
as infail

Synonyms for faulting

verb switch, fluctuate

Antonyms for faulting

Word Origin & History

late 13c., faute, "deficiency," from Old French faute (12c.) "opening, gap; failure, flaw, blemish; lack, deficiency," from Vulgar Latin *fallita "a shortcoming, falling," noun use of fem. past participle, from Latin falsus "deceptive, feigned, spurious," past participle of fallere "deceive, disappoint" (see fail).

The -l- was restored 16c., probably in imitation of Latin, but was not pronounced till 18c. Sense of "physical defect" is from early 14c.; that of "moral culpability" is first recorded late 14c. Geological sense is from 1796. The use in tennis (c.1600) is closer to the etymological sense.

Example Sentences for faulting

Are you so sure that what you are faulting is not the manner and the way of a world you have not seen?

The foibles of their youth are still to be traced in faulting and non-conformity.

The valley itself has been produced by a combination of faulting and erosion.

Most fault scarps have been modified by erosion since the faulting.

It is a region of quiescence or of faulting, but not of folding.

The depression is probably a “Graben” or trough formed by faulting.

Faulting, however, is by no means absent, and some of the faults are of considerable magnitude.

The Ouachita Mountains are characterized by close folding and faulting.

Some faulting is shown in the vicinity of various manganese deposits and may have influenced the localization of the deposits.

Most faulting along spreading zones is normal, along subduction zones is thrust, and along transform faults is strike-slip.