Word.ws English Dictionary

thrust faults

thrust faults is the plural of thrust fault.

Meaning of thrust fault

Noun

thrust fault (plural thrust faults)

  1. A type of reverse fault in which the angle that the hanging wall makes with the horizontal is less than 45 degrees.

Questions about thrust faults

What is thrust faults the plural of?
Thrust faults is the plural of thrust fault.

Words near thrust faults in the dictionary

  1. thrust bucket
  2. thrust buckets
  3. thrust diamond
  4. thrust diamonds
  5. thrust fault
  6. thrust faults
  7. thrust load
  8. thrust loads
  9. thrust one's nose in
  10. thrust out
  11. thrust reverser

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: thrust faults (page history and authors); thrust 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.

Last updated:

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