postfailure

English

Etymology

From post- +‎ failure.

Adjective

postfailure (not comparable)

  1. Following a failure
    • 1995, James G. Buchanan, Basin Inversion, page 13:
      The significance of this is that an array of hydrofractures in the rupture nucleation site provides a reservoir of overpressured fluids with ready access to the fault postfailure.