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Meaning of "gravity fault" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF GRAVITY FAULT

gravity fault play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF GRAVITY FAULT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Gravity fault is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES GRAVITY FAULT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of gravity fault in the English dictionary

The definition of gravity fault in the dictionary is a fault in which the rocks on the upper side of an inclined fault plane have been displaced downwards; normal fault.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE GRAVITY FAULT

gravitational field
gravitational force
gravitational interaction
gravitational lens
gravitational mass
gravitational pull
gravitational wave
gravitationally
gravitative
gravities
gravitino
gravitometer
graviton
gravity
gravity anomaly
gravity cell
gravity dam
gravity platform
gravity scale
gravity wave

WORDS THAT END LIKE GRAVITY FAULT

assault
at fault
by default
compound fault
default
dip fault
dip-slip fault
double fault
electrical fault
fault
find fault
foot fault
judgment by default
oblique fault
oblique-slip fault
strike fault
strike-slip fault
thrust fault
to a fault
vault

Synonyms and antonyms of gravity fault in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «gravity fault» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF GRAVITY FAULT

Find out the translation of gravity fault to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of gravity fault from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «gravity fault» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

重力故障
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

culpa gravedad
570 millions of speakers

English

gravity fault
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

गुरुत्वाकर्षण गलती
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

خطأ الجاذبية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

гравитация вина
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

culpa gravidade
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

মাধ্যাকর্ষণ ত্রুটি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

gravité faute
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kesalahan graviti
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Schwere Fehler
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

重力障害
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

중력 오류
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kesalahan gravitasi
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

lỗi nghiêm trọng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஈர்ப்பு தவறு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

गुरुत्व दोष
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Yer çekimi hatası
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

colpa di gravità
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

wina grawitacji
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

гравітація вина
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

vina gravitate
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

σφάλμα της βαρύτητας
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

swaartekrag skuld
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

gravitation fel
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

gravitasjon feil
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of gravity fault

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «GRAVITY FAULT»

The term «gravity fault» is barely ever used and occupies the 207.070 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «GRAVITY FAULT» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about gravity fault

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GRAVITY FAULT»

Discover the use of gravity fault in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to gravity fault and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Geology and Climatology of Yucca Mountain and Vicinity, ...
Fridrich (1999) linked the eastern border of the Crater Flat domain (the gravity fault) to an inferred dextral fault, the Yucca Wash fault, that follows the axis of Yucca Wash (Figs. 3, 8, 9; Fridrich, 1999, p. 173). The eastern domain boundary is ...
John S. Stuckless, Robert A. Levich, 2007
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Taking Out North Korea's Super Missile: (The Axis of Evil & ...
Asexy female voice announced, 'Center of gravity fault! Center of gravity fault! Fuel transfer system! Fuel transfer system!' Stewart yelled,“Wake up,damnit! We' relosing it! Ourangle's been wrong foralongtimenow!We're goin' downever so slowly ...
James Novak
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Geological Survey Professional Paper
The second type of gravity fault, which occurs beneath the middle and outer shelf, is characterized by much smaller offsets of Quaternary deposits and the seabed than the first type and includes many growth faults having long histories of ...
Geological Survey (U.S.), 1988
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U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper
A north-northwest-striking buried fault on the west side of the Striped Hills, known colloquially as the "gravity fault." Structurally high pre-Tertiary rocks near Hampel Hill. A gravity low on the southeastern margin of the Timber Mountain domain ...
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Cenozoic Basins of the Death Valley Region
The east boundary of Crater Flat basin against the Rock Valley domain probably is a large concealed down-to-the-west fault known as the Gravity fault (Winograd and Thordarson. l975). which is interpreted based on large coincident ...
Lauren Albert Wright, Bennie Wyatt Troxel, 1999
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Bulletin of the Geological Society of America
... 40th Parallel24 According to this view, the main range is a monocline dipping eastward and cut off on the west by a profound normal or gravity fault. Small transverse normal faults with a general cast-west trend served to account for sudden ...
Geological Society of America, 1910
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Exploring Mercury: The Iron Planet
Another term for this type of fault is gravity fault because the maximum stress is vertical and due to the force of gravity acting on the rocks. Often this type of fault forms troughs where a section of the crust slides downward between two ...
Robert G. Strom, Ann L. Sprague, 2003
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Proposed 1985 Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Lease Sale ...
... area several active faults appear to be present within the unconsolidated sedimentary section. A gravity fault appears to exist at the boundary of the outer Blake Plateau and the top of the Continental Slope between 31° and 32° N. latitudes.
‎1984
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Gravity Vs. the Girl
Every- thing wrong with the world was all gravity's fault. The little girl had never seen a physics textbook and she didn't know who Isaac Newton was, but she was once in- formed that the thing preventing her from jumping the gulch on her bike ...
Riley Noehren, 2009
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The Solid Earth: An Introduction to Global Geophysics
(c) A normal fault, dip-slip fault, normal-slip fault, tensional fault, gravity fault; generally, 45 «5 < 90 . (d) A thrust fault, dip-slip fault, reverse-slip fault, reverse fault, compressional fault; often, 0 <K < 45 . Arrows show the slip vector, the relative ...
C. M. R. Fowler, 2005

2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GRAVITY FAULT»

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Desert Oasis Water Source Traced Back to Nuclear Test Site
According to LiveScience, the new research shows that Gravity Fault, the fault line acting as a conduit for the water, links the Ash Meadow oasis ... «Treehugger, Jun 10»
2
Water Source Discovered for Desert Oasis near Death Valley
... from the north to the south through an underground crack in the Earth's crust known as the Gravity Fault, which acts as a guide for the water. «LiveScience.com, Jun 10»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Gravity fault [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/gravity-fault>. Apr 2024 ».
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