Usually means: Very small, almost negligible distance.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word hair's breadth:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. hair's breadth: Merriam-Webster
  2. hair's-breadth, hair's-breadth, hair's breadth, hair's breadth: Collins English Dictionary
  3. hair's-breadth: Vocabulary.com
  4. hair's-breadth: Wordnik
  5. hair's breadth: Wiktionary
  6. hair's-breadth, hair's breadth, hairs-breadth, hairs breadth: Dictionary.com
  7. Hair's breadth: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. hair's-breadth: Rhymezone
  9. hairs-breadth: FreeDictionary.org
  10. hair's-breadth: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. hair's-breadth, hair's breadth: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hair's-breadth: Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hair's breadth: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (hair's breadth)

noun:  (idiomatic) A very small amount or distance.

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