responsibleness, responsibility - a form of trustworthiness; the trait of being answerable to someone for something or being responsible for one's conduct; "he holds a position of great responsibility"

geology - a science that deals with the history of the earth as recorded in rocks

fault line - (geology) line determined by the intersection of a geological fault and the earth's surface

crack, scissure, cleft, crevice, fissure - a long narrow opening

Denali Fault - a major open geological fault in Alaska

inclined fault - a geological fault in which one side is above the other

San Andreas Fault - a major geological fault in California; runs from San Diego to San Francisco; the source of serious earthquakes

strike-slip fault - a geological fault in which one of the adjacent surfaces appears to have moved horizontally

worth - the quality that renders something desirable or valuable or useful

nonaccomplishment, nonachievement - an act that does not achieve its intended goal

blot, smirch, smear, stain, spot - an act that brings discredit to the person who does it; "he made a huge blot on his copybook"

mix-up, confusion - a mistake that results from taking one thing to be another; "he changed his name in order to avoid confusion with the notorious outlaw"

incursion - the mistake of incurring liability or blame

miscalculation, misestimation, misreckoning - a mistake in calculating

distortion - the mistake of misrepresenting the facts

parapraxis, slip-up, miscue, slip - a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.

lapse, oversight - a mistake resulting from inattention

omission, skip - a mistake resulting from neglect

blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup, bloomer - an embarrassing mistake

balls-up, ballup, cockup, mess-up - something badly botched or muddled

betise, folly, imbecility, stupidity, foolishness - a stupid mistake

renege, revoke - the mistake of not following suit when able to do so

imperfection, imperfectness - the state or an instance of being imperfect

glitch, bug - a fault or defect in a system or machine

hole - a fault; "he shot holes in my argument"

double fault - (tennis) two successive faults in serving resulting in the loss of the point

footfault - a fault that occurs when the server in tennis fails to keep both feet behind the baseline

squash rackets, squash racquets, squash - a game played in an enclosed court by two or four players who strike the ball with long-handled rackets

badminton - a game played on a court with light long-handled rackets used to volley a shuttlecock over a net

lawn tennis, tennis - a game played with rackets by two or four players who hit a ball back and forth over a net that divides the court

serve, service - (sports) a stroke that puts the ball in play; "his powerful serves won the game"

electronics - the branch of physics that deals with the emission and effects of electrons and with the use of electronic devices

equipment failure, breakdown - a cessation of normal operation; "there was a power breakdown"

accuse, charge - blame for, make a claim of wrongdoing or misbehavior against; "he charged me director with indifference"