faulted

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adjective

Having experienced a page fault.

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verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of fault

    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.

    1955 July, “Storm Damage Repairs in Furness and West Cumberland”, in Railway Magazine, page 470
adjectivefaulted (not comparable)
  1. not comparablecomputingHaving experienced a page fault.

    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.

    2002, Æleen Frisch, Essential system administration

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MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “faulted,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/faulted.

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