whisker

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I don't know if it still holds true now that WinPho sales are more than a whisker over none.

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Quick take

a very small distance or space; "they escaped by a hair's-breadth"; "they lost the election by a whisker"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of whisker gathered in one view.

noun

a very small distance or space; "they escaped by a hair's-breadth"; "they lost the election by a whisker"

noun

a long stiff hair growing from the snout or brow of most mammals as e.g. a cat

verb

furnish with whiskers; "a whiskered jersey"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for whisker.

noun

a very small distance or space; "they escaped by a hair's-breadth"; "they lost the election by a whisker"

See also: hair's-breadth, hairsbreadth, hair

noun

a long stiff hair growing from the snout or brow of most mammals as e.g. a cat

verb

furnish with whiskers; "a whiskered jersey"

Example sentences

I don't know if it still holds true now that WinPho sales are more than a whisker over none.

I've been using one for about two years now and won't ever go back to that multi-blade, whisker tugging nightmare.

From the DIC results, it is proposed that strain or stress gradient, instead of an overall compressive stress field is the key for whisker growth.

Due to the harmful effects on human health and environments, it is no longer a valid solution to prevent whisker growth with lead.

With the shift to whisker- prone Pb-free solders, controlling whisker growth from low melting point metals has again become technically challenging.

Catholics are the second biggest cult after the Protestants in Australia and just ahead of the non-believers by a whisker.

What's the whisker manufacturing process?There's lots of work on devices like this, and this article doesn't answer any of the points that you need to see where this tech stands relative to its competitors.

There is a much bigger problem with basing your model of the brain on cortical columns, which is that they don't exist outside visual cortex and the whisker region of sensory cortex in rats and mice.

By processing SEM images taken in consecutive time intervals over the area of interest on Sn-Cu finishes, the local strain evolution due to whisker growth can be obtained.

This methodology provides an alternative way for exploring the complicated process of whisker growth through the page 9 of 13 morphology changes.

The findings have advanced the understanding of whisker growth mechanisms and may provide insight for developing whisker mitigation technology for lead-free solder alloys.

Gun control at the national level mostly disappeared in this century until Newtown after the Democrats suffered a string of catastrophic defeats from losing both houses of the Congress in 1994 to Al Gore losing by a whisker in 2000.

Results from SEM and DIC analysis also indicate that the whisker growth is a continuously dynamic process, during which the subsequent whisker is triggered by the redistribution of strain or stress field after local strain relaxation.