faulted

English

Verb

faulted

  1. simple past and past participle of fault
    • 1955 July, “Storm Damage Repairs in Furness and West Cumberland”, in Railway Magazine, page 470:
      The geology at the site is mainly sandstone and shale overlaid with boulder clay, and is extremely confused. The ground is badly faulted, and at Micklam [Point], near Whitehaven, there is a downthrow of 480 ft.

Adjective

faulted (not comparable)

  1. (computing) Having experienced a page fault.
    • 2002, Æleen Frisch, Essential system administration:
      When a page is read in, a few pages surrounding the faulted page are typically loaded as well in the same I/O operation in an effort to head off future page faults.

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