at fault

fault (fôlt)

a. A character weakness, especially a minor one.

b. Something that impairs or detracts from physical perfection; a defect. See Synonyms at blemish.

c. A mistake; an error.

d. A minor offense or misdeed.

2. Responsibility for a mistake or an offense; culpability. See Synonyms at blame.

3. Geology A fracture in the continuity of a rock formation caused by a shifting or dislodging of the earth's crust, in which adjacent surfaces are displaced relative to one another and parallel to the plane of fracture. Also called shift.

4. Electronics A defect in a circuit or wiring caused by imperfect connections, poor insulation, grounding, or shorting.

5. Sports A bad service, as in tennis.

6. Obsolete A lack or deficiency.

v. fault·ed, fault·ing, faults

v.tr.

1. To find error or defect in; criticize or blame.

2. Geology To produce a fault in; fracture.

v.intr.

1. To commit a mistake or an error.

2. Geology To shift so as to produce a fault.

Idioms:

at fault

1. Deserving of blame; guilty: admitted to being at fault.

2. Confused and puzzled.

find fault

To seek, find, and complain about faults; criticize: found fault with his speech.

to a fault

To an excessive degree: generous to a fault.

[Middle English faulte, from Old French, from Vulgar Latin *fallita, from variant of Latin falsa, feminine past participle of fallere, to deceive, fail.]

fault

top: normal fault

center: reverse fault

bottom: strike-slip fault

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Adj.

at fault - deserving blame; "admitted to being at fault"

guilty - responsible for or chargeable with a reprehensible act; "guilty of murder"; "the guilty person"; "secret guilty deeds"

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s own insurance company pays for injury up to a certain limit regardless of whether its insured was at fault By own insurance I mean the insurance of the car you were in at the time of the accident since policy provisions make you an "insured" of that vehicle ?

What Is Personal Injury Protection? What Is No Fault? by Rex Bush / Law community

The training samples of the BP network at fault severity level 2 and load level of 50 tons are shown in Table 5.

A novel strategy for the fault detection and diagnosis of centrifugal ... by Zhou, Qiang; Wang, Shengwei; Xiao, Fu / HVAC & R Research

the ability to prove who was at fault for your accident.

No Fault Insurance What You Need to Know by Melanie Broemsen / Finance and Investment community