[ noun ] a very small distance or space <noun.quantity> they escaped by a hair's-breadththey lost the election by a whisker
Hairbreadth \Hair"breadth`\ (-br[e^]dth), Hair's breadth \Hair's" breadth`\ (h[^a]rz"-). The diameter or breadth of a hair; a very small distance; sometimes, definitely, the forty-eighth part of an inch. [Also spelled {hairsbreadth}.]
Every one could sling stones at an hairbreadth and not miss. --Judg. xx. 16.