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fault line

nounC1Not compared — the two pools are counted one word at a time, so a phrase has no score

A fault line is a crack where blocks of rock have slipped past each other. Live on a fault line.

The rock catches and then jumps, and the jump is what an earthquake is. A fault line is also used of any division running through a group of people.

NASA Earth Observatory images by Robert Simmon and Jesse Allen, using Landsat data from the USGS Earth Explorer. Caption by Adam Voiland. · Public domain

Definitions of fault line

  1. 1nounfault lineA crack where blocks of rock have slipped past each other.C1

    “The fault line runs the whole length of the valley.”

fault line is a crack.

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