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photo finish

Word definitions for photo finish in dictionaries

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

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

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Photo Finish (novel) is a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh ; it is the thirty-first, and penultimate, novel to feature Roderick Alleyn , and was first published in 1980. The novel takes place on a millionaire's private island in New Zealand, and features ...

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 .

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.