PHOTO FINISH

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("photo finish" is a kind of...):

finish (designated event that concludes a contest (especially a race))

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