San Andreas fault in English

[Show JSON for postprocessed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▼] [Hide JSON for postprocessed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▲]

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "San Andreas faults",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "head": "San Andreas fault"
      },
      "expansion": "San Andreas fault (plural San Andreas faults)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "San Andreas Fault"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with French translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              78,
              95
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2005, Thomas Howard Anderson, The Mojave-Sonora Megashear Hypothesis, page 211:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of San Andreas Fault."
      ],
      "id": "en-San_Andreas_fault-en-noun-xSn1OXrC",
      "links": [
        [
          "San Andreas Fault",
          "San Andreas Fault#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "Californian fault",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "faille de San Andreas"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "San Andreas fault"
}

[Show JSON for raw wiktextract data ▼] [Hide JSON for raw wiktextract data ▲]

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "San Andreas faults",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "head": "San Andreas fault"
      },
      "expansion": "San Andreas fault (plural San Andreas faults)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "San Andreas Fault"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Entries with translation boxes",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "Terms with French translations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              78,
              95
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2005, Thomas Howard Anderson, The Mojave-Sonora Megashear Hypothesis, page 211:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of San Andreas Fault."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "San Andreas Fault",
          "San Andreas Fault#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "Californian fault",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "faille de San Andreas"
    }
  ],
  "word": "San Andreas fault"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-08-04 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-08-02 using wiktextract (a681f8a and 3c020d2). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.

"San Andreas fault" meaning in English

Noun

Inflected forms