Fault commonly refers to:

  • Fault (geology), planar rock fractures showing evidence of relative movement
  • Fault (law), blameworthiness or responsibility

Fault(s) may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

  • "Fault", a song by Taproot from Welcome
  • "Fault" (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit), 2006
  • Faults (film), 2014

Science and technology

  • Fault (computing), also called a trap or an exception, a type of interrupt in software or operating systems
  • Fault (technology), an abnormal condition or defect that may lead to a failure
  • Electrical fault, an abnormal current

Sport and competition

  • Fault (breeding), an undesirable aspect of structure or appearance of an animal
  • Fault, in pickleball, any infringement of the rules by a player
  • Fault, in show jumping, a penalty
  • Fault, in tennis jargon, a serve that fails to place a tennis ball in the correct area of play

See also

  • Blame
  • Defect (disambiguation)
  • Error
  • Mistake (disambiguation)
  • Software bug