Usually means: Responsibility for mistake or error.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. fault: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. fault: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fault: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fault: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fault: Vocabulary.com
  6. Fault, fault: Wordnik
  7. fault: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. fault: Wiktionary
  9. fault: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. fault: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. fault: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. fault: Dictionary.com
  13. fault (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. fault: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Fault (breeding), Fault (computing), Fault (dog), Fault (geology), Fault (law), Fault (legal), Fault (power engineering), Fault (seismology), Fault (technology), Fault: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Fault: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. fault: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. fault: Rhymezone
  19. fault: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. fault: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Fault, Fault: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. fault: Free Dictionary
  23. fault: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. fault: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. fault: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. fault: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  3. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  7. Fault (computing), fault: Legal dictionary
  8. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. fault: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. fault: CCI Computer
  3. Fault (computing), Fault (geology), fault: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fault: Idioms

Science (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Fault: Glossary of Earthquake and Related Terminology
  2. Earthquake Image Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Field Trip to Mars (No longer online)
  4. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  5. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)
  6. fault: Natural History Terms
  7. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Fault: Urban Dictionary

Sports (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. Fault: Croquet
  2. Fault: Tennis Glossary
  3. Squash Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  5. CAVE AND KARST TERMINOLOGY (No longer online)
  6. Inter Badminton (No longer online)
  7. Fault: Sports Definitions
  8. Badminton Terms (No longer online)

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Fault: Building pathology glossary
  3. Glossary of Coal Mining Terms (No longer online)
  4. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  6. FAULT: Power Engineering

(Note: See faulted as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (typically uncountable) Culpability; the responsibility for a blameworthy event.
noun:  A defect, imperfection, or weakness; more severe than a flaw.
noun:  (morality) A failing of character; less severe than a vice.
noun:  A characteristic, positive or negative or both, which increases one's risk of danger or difficulty.
noun:  A strongly undesirable variation of food or drink caused by impurity or contamination.
noun:  (obsolete) A point of weakness in something's physical structure.
noun:  A mistake or error.
noun:  A minor offense.
noun:  (tennis) An illegal serve.
noun:  (equestrianism) A penalty point assessed in horseback events such as show jumping.
noun:  (programming) An exception within a software program or process.
noun:  A point at which something is divided, interrupted, or disconnected.
noun:  (geology) A fracture in a rock formation causing a discontinuity.
noun:  (technology) An abnormal connection within an electric circuit.
noun:  (hunting) A loss of the scent being tracked by a hound.
noun:  (mining) An intrusion of another material, such as dirt or slate, within a coal seam.
noun:  (obsolete) want; lack; absence
verb:  (transitive) To criticize, blame or find fault with something or someone.
verb:  (intransitive, geology) To fracture.
verb:  (intransitive) To commit a mistake or error.
verb:  (intransitive, computing) To undergo a page fault.

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