near miss
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near miss
noun near misses · near-miss
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A miss which was nearly a hit or collision.
[…] two aircraft, one flying level across the field, another climbing after a missed approach, had an extremely near miss, in my estimation, less than 50 feet, before the lower pilot saw the higher aircraft and broke violently to the right in the darkness.
Similar: airmiss
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A scenario which ends safely but might well have ended in disaster.
In recent years there have been two fatalities and one near miss due to the inappropriate use of boom trucks.
Similar: close shave, narrow escape
- An attempt which fails narrowly; a performance which falls just short of a certain benchmark. Dean Chance […] wasn't crying over his near miss of a no-hitter Monday night.
Opposite: direct hit, fiasco, rout
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Opposite: direct hit, fiasco, rout
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| Deutsch | Beinahekollision |
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| Italiano | per un pelo |
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