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.