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What does hairsbreadth mean?

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Noun
  1. a very short distance or a very small amount (as is the width of a hair)
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I would take good care not to lean a hairsbreadth towards radicalism.
In the process of attempting to reunify Korea, the Northern-based army unleashed a powerful social revolution in the South and came within a hairsbreadth of driving the U. S. imperialist army off the peninsula.
This results in large load increases for very small deformations, often less than a hairsbreadth.
We are balanced upon a hairsbreadth of history, between two tipping points.
Mr. Gerstein was always ready with a slight acceleration, a hairsbreadth rubato or a sudden, subtle shift of tone to keep you on your toes.
He was more than once within a hairsbreadth of death but at length he was brought by his master, Kakinathucca, to his home.

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