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postfailure

postfailure adjective: following a failure.

Adjective

postfailure (not comparable)

  1. Following a failure
    • The significance of this is that an array of hydrofractures in the rupture nucleation site provides a reservoir of overpressured fluids with ready access to the fault postfailure.1995, James G. Buchanan, Basin Inversion, page 13

Origin of postfailure

From post- + failure.

Questions about postfailure

What does postfailure mean?
Postfailure means following a failure.
What part of speech is postfailure?
Postfailure is an adjective.

Words near postfailure in the dictionary

  1. postfact
  2. postfactory
  3. postfactual
  4. postfactum
  5. postfader
  6. postfailure
  7. postfame
  8. postfamilial
  9. postfamine
  10. postfascism
  11. postfascist

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