san andreas fault
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.44 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
name
The geographical fault or fault system running through San Andreas, California.
Example Sentences
- "If reconstructed palinspastically for 300 km of right lateral movement on the San Andreas fault, these strata would lie west to northwest of Paleozoic to Lower Mesozoic strata in Sonora."
- "The southern California portion of the coastline is a major transform fault, commonly known as the San Andreas Fault."
Inflected Forms
San Andreas faults (plural)
the San Andreas Fault (canonical)