faulted

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faulted

verb

participle, past simple past and past participle of fault The geology at the site is mainly sandstone and shale overlaid with boulder clay, and is extremely confused. The ground is badly faulted, and at Micklam [Point], near Whitehaven, there is a downthrow of 480 ft.

adjective

not comparable Having experienced a page fault. When a page is read in, a few pages surrounding the faulted page are typically loaded as well in the same I/O operation in an effort to head off future page faults.

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@misc{faulted_2026,
  title = {faulted},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/faulted},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}