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fault line
noun
- the intersection of a fault with the surface of the earth or other plane of reference.
fault line
noun
- Also calledfault plane geology the surface of a fault fracture along which the rocks have been displaced
- a potentially disruptive division or area of contention
Europe remains the main fault line in the Tory Party
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Word History and Origins
Origin of fault line1
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Example Sentences
In addition to its million-and-a-half year dormant stretch, the fault line is nearly impossible to see from above.
The fault line was the dance, because there was no way he could do that in a prime ministerial manner.
That zone is a fault line, a crease in the planet floor between the North American plate and the Continental plate.
Section by section it has ruptured as though it were a pyric San Andreas fault line.
Iran is situated on a fault line and people are scared of a Fukushima type of situation happening.
There is, moreover, evidence of actual compression of the earth's crust at right angles to the fault-line.
"The fault line I mentioned is so obvious you can't miss it," he said to Joyce.
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