hairbreadth

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English - English
the width of a hair, a very short distance or a very small amount

Measure Maddalena, and measure Minerva, and from forehead to chin, you won't find a hairbreadth of difference between them.

{n} a very small breadth or distance
{i} hairsbreadth, very small distance
Having the breadth of a hair; very narrow; as, a hairbreadth escape
{s} hairsbreadth, extremely narrow
The diameter or breadth of a hair; a very small distance; sometimes, definitely, the forty-eighth part of an inch
hairbreadth escape
narrow escape (from danger, death, etc.)
hairsbreadth
a very short distance or a very small amount (as is the width of a hair)

In Avatar the spectacular rides to the rescue and hairsbreadth escapes have the whole film behind them and because of that are dramatically and emotionally satisfying.

hairbreadths
plural of hairbreadth
hairsbreadth
{i} extremely small space
hairsbreadths
plural of hairsbreadth
hairbreadth
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