Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun strike-slip_fault

1 sense of strike-slip fault

Sense 1
strike-slip fault -- (a geological fault in which one of the adjacent surfaces appears to have moved horizontally)
       => fault, faulting, geological fault, shift, fracture, break -- ((geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other; "they built it right over a geological fault"; "he studied the faulting of the earth's crust")