Word.ws English Dictionary

subfaults

subfaults is the plural of subfault.

Meaning of subfault

Noun

subfault (plural subfaults)

  1. A subsidiary fault
    • We present an approach to defining a probability distribution based on subdividing the fault geometry into many subfaults and prescribing a desired covariance matrix relating slip on one subfault to slip on any other subfault.2016, Randall J. LeVeque, Knut Waagan, Frank I. González, Donsub Rim, Guang Lin, “Generating Random Earthquake Events for PTHA”, in arXiv

Questions about subfaults

What is subfaults the plural of?
Subfaults is the plural of subfault.

Words near subfaults in the dictionary

  1. subfascial
  2. subfasciculate
  3. subfastigiate
  4. subfastigiately
  5. subfault
  6. subfaults
  7. subfeature
  8. subfeatures
  9. subfebrile
  10. subfebrility
  11. subfecund

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: subfaults (page history and authors); subfault (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “subfaults.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/subfaults. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.