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faulting

faulting is the present participle and gerund of fault.

Meaning of fault

Verb

fault (third-person singular simple present faults, present participle faulting, simple past and past participle faulted)

  1. (transitive) To criticize, blame or find fault with something or someone.
    • For that, says he, I ne'er will fault thee / But for humbleness exalt thee.a. 1723, unknown author, The Devonshire Nymph
  2. (intransitive) To fracture.
  3. (intransitive) To commit a mistake or error.
  4. (intransitive) To undergo a page fault.

See all 18 meanings of fault

Noun

faulting (plural faultings)

  1. Formation of a geological fault.

Forms of faulting

pluralfaultings

Phrases with faulting

Questions about faulting

What does faulting mean?
Faulting means formation of a geological fault.
What is faulting the present participle and gerund of?
Faulting is the present participle and gerund of fault.
What part of speech is faulting?
Faulting is a noun.
What is the plural of faulting?
The plural of faulting is faultings.

Words near faulting in the dictionary

  1. faultier
  2. faultiest
  3. faultily
  4. faultiness
  5. faultinesses
  6. faulting
  7. faultings
  8. faultless
  9. faultlessly
  10. faultlessness
  11. faultline

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Adapted from Wiktionary: faulting (page history and authors); fault (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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