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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
photo finish
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
photo finish

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
photo finish

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
Photo Finish

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
  • Photo Finish (novel), a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh
  • Photo Finish Records, an independent record label located in New York City, United States
  • Photo Finish (Prison Break episode), an episode of Prison Break, an American serial drama television series
  • Photo Finish (My Little Pony), a character of the My Little Pony franchise
  • Photo Finish (play), a play by Peter Ustinov
  • Photo finishing, the chemical means by which photographic film and paper are treated after photographic exposure to produce a negative or positive image
Photo Finish (novel)

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 the world premiere of an opera entitled The Alien Corn, after the Biblical story of Ruth. The novel's central character bears a striking resemblance to Maria Callas.

Category:Roderick Alleyn novels Category:1980 British novels Category:Novels set in New Zealand Category:Collins Crime Club books

Photo Finish (TV movie)

Photo Finish is a 1965 Australian TV movie based on a play by Peter Ustinov. It screened on ABC and was produced by Oscar Whitbread and starred Frank Thring.

Thring played the role on stage the year before.

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.