Near miss at CLT
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ScottM
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Actually a near miss mean you almost missed, IOW you hit it! (Clam down NickA "near miss" is still a "miss". Just one that nearly didn't.
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Dave Siciliano
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Actually a near miss mean you almost missed, IOW you hit it! (Clam down Nick
These folks seem to disagree
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_miss_(safety)
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gismo
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The problem is that "near" like many English words has two distinctly different meanings that are normally differentiated by context and in the case of "near miss" or "near collision" either definition could apply and one conveys the opposite meaning of the other.
Near can mean "with small separation" as well as "almost". I think the standard use of the phrase "near miss" is intended to mean "miss with small separation"and not "almost miss".
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Perhaps it would make more sense to say "close miss"
