loss vs photo finish

loss

noun
  • The result of no longer possessing an object, a function, or a characteristic due to external causes or misplacement. 

  • The death of a person or animal. 

  • Defeat; an instance of being defeated. 

  • Something that has been destroyed or ruined. 

  • The condition of grief caused by losing someone or something, especially someone who has died. 

  • The sum an entity loses on balance. 

  • The destruction or ruin of an object. 

  • Electricity of kinetic power expended without doing useful work. 

photo finish

noun
  • Any competition with a very close outcome. 

  • 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. 

How often have the words loss and photo finish occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )