Now there is a more scientific term known as concentric failure, where you fail to complete the concentric, muscle-shortening phase of a rep without significant compromises to your form or technique.
So there was a meta-analysis recently where they looked at either concentric repetition of more than two seconds or less than two seconds and saw strength outcomes were better.
A 2016 study showed that subjects with multiple years of training experience who believed they were pushing to their max, end up making less gains than subjects that were directly instructed to push to concentric failure.