1 : Surface area is a country's total area, including areas under inland bodies of water and some coastal waterways. 2  Irrigated land: The number of square kilometers of land area that is artificially supplied with water. 3  Population density: People per square kilometre, in 1999. 4  At this time the world average was 14.42.
A ground fault is an inadvertent contact between an energized conductor and ground or equipment frame. The return path of the fault current is through the grounding system and any personnel or equipment that becomes part of that system.
Definition of fault. 1  intransitive verb. 2  1 : to commit a fault : err. 3  2 : to fracture so as to produce a geologic fault.  transitive 1  verb. 1 : to find a fault in easy to praise this book and to fault it â H. G. Roepke.  2 : to produce a geologic 1  fault in. 3 : blame, censure can't fault them for not coming.