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Noun: hairsbreadth
  1. A very small distance or space
    "they escaped by a hairsbreadth";
    - hair's-breadth, hair, whisker, hairbreadth

Derived forms: hairsbreadths, hair's-breadths

Type of: small indefinite amount, small indefinite quantity

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