Definitions for near miss
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Random House Webster's College Dictionary
near′ miss′(n.)
or near′-miss′
a strike by a missile that is not a direct hit.
the narrow avoidance of a collision.
Category: Common Vocabulary
something that falls narrowly short of its object.
Princeton's WordNet
near miss(noun)
an accidental collision that is narrowly avoided
Wiktionary
near miss(Noun)
a miss which was nearly a hit or collision
near miss(Noun)
a scenario which ends safely but might well have ended in disaster
near miss(Noun)
an attempt which fails narrowly; a performance which falls just short of a certain benchmark
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