Look up fault or faulty in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Fault commonly refers to:

• Fault (geology), planar rock fractures showing evidence of relative movement
• Fault (law), blameworthiness or responsibility

Fault(s) may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

• "Fault", a song by Taproot from Welcome
• Faults (film), 2014

Science and technology

• Fault (computing), also called a trap or an exception, a type of interrupt in software or operating systems
• Fault (technology), an abnormal condition or defect that may lead to a failure
• Electrical fault, an abnormal current

Sport and competition

• Fault (breeding), an undesirable aspect of structure or appearance of an animal
• Fault, in pickleball, any infringement of the rules by a player
• Fault, in show jumping, a penalty
• Fault, in tennis jargon, a serve that fails to place a tennis ball in the correct area of play

See also

• Blame
• Defect (disambiguation)
• Error
• Mistake (disambiguation)
• Software bug

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