that lands outside the prescribed area); "he served too many double faults" responsibility for a bad situation or event; "it was John's fault" (electronics) equipment failure attributable to some defect in a circuit (loose connection or insulation failure or short circuit etc
A fault is an exception that is generated when the current instruction needs help before it can be executed For example, supposed in a virtual memory system, a memory access is made to a page that is not in memory In this case, a fault is generated which vectors to an isr that will read in the page The fault exception is different in the way it returns from interrupt in that control is returned to the instruction that caused the fault, not the following instruction as with a normal interrupt This allows the instruction to access the memory again, and this time succeed
a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention; "he made a bad mistake"; "she was quick to point out my errors"; "I could understand his English in spite of his grammatical faults"
A crack or fracture in the earth's surface Movement along the fault can cause earthquakes or, in the process of mountain-building, can release underlying magma and permit it to rise to the surface
A fracture or fracture zone in the Earth's crust along which slippage of adjacent Earth material has occurred at some time
component of a SOAP message that contains error information SOAP endpoints return faults within the Body of a response to provide detailed error information to the client
A moral failing; a defect or dereliction from duty; a deviation from propriety; an offense less serious than a crime