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photo finish
Word definitions for photo finish in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A photo finish is a photo or video taken at the finish line of a sporting race when multiple competitors cross the finishing line at nearly the same time. Photo finish may also refer to: Photo-Finish , the seventh studio album by Irish musician Rory Gallagher ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. in general, any very close finish; in particular, a finish of a race in which the contestants are so close together that the winner must be determined from a photograph taken at the instant of finishing
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Latest polls suggest Sunday's election will be a photo finish . EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Here the officials checked your number and gave you your side number, for the photo finish .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The finish of a race in which the leaders are so close together that the winner cannot be identified using the naked eye but is determined by means of a photograph 2 (context by extension English) Any competition with a very close outcome
Usage examples of photo finish.
But here he was, exhausted but exclaiming at a four-hundred-meter race's photo finish, exactly the vital Nirgal she remembered from that Hell's Gate tour so long ago-glory years for him as well as her.
It may always-or almost always-be a photo finish, with the outcome uncertain to the last moment, just as it is with us.
The first was run in peering dusk and the second in total darkness, with floodlights from the tower illuminating just the winning line, bright enough to activate the photo finish.
He had convinced ISA's top brass that nothing like a photo finish must be allowed.