Dead Heat may refer to:
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Dead heat
A dead heat is a rare situation in various racing sports in which the performances of competitors are judged to be so close that no difference between them can be resolved. The result is declared a Tie (draw), tie and the competitors are awarde ...
, in racing sports, an unresolvable tie
Film and television
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''Dead Heat'' (1988 film), an American comedy horror cop film
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''Dead Heat'' (2002 film), an American crime comedy film
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"Dead Heat" (''Murder, She Wrote''), a 1985 television episode
Literature
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''Dead Heat'' (Rosenberg novel), a 2008 ''Last Jihad'' novel by Joel C. Rosenberg
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''Dead Heat'' (Stone novel), a 1996 novel by Del Stone Jr.
*''Dead Heat'', a 1984 Michael Spraggue novel by
Linda Barnes
*''Dead Heat'', a 2015 Alpha and Omega novel by
Patricia Briggs
Patricia Briggs (born 1965) is an American writer of Fantasy novel, fantasy since 1993, and author of the Mercy Thompson urban fantasy series.
Biography
Patricia Briggs was born in 1965 in Butte, Montana, United States. She now resides in Bent ...
*''Dead Heat'', a 2007 novel by
Dick Francis
Richard Stanley Francis (31 October 1920 – 14 February 2010) was a British steeplechase jockey and crime writer whose novels centre on horse racing in England.
After wartime service in the RAF, Francis became a full-time jump-jockey, winni ...
and Felix Francis
See also
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Heat death (disambiguation)
Heat death may refer to:
*Heat death of the universe, a proposed cosmological event
** Heat death paradox, a philosophical examination of the cosmological event
*Hyperthermia, injury up to and including death, from excessive heat
*Thermal shock, t ...
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List of dead heat horse races
This list of dead heat horse races includes wins between two or more horses, where the winner could not be determined by a photo finish. Before the 20th century, dead heat horse races could be settled by a second deciding race, unless the owners a ...
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Photo finish
A photo finish occurs in a sporting race when multiple competitors cross the finishing line at nearly the same time. As the naked eye may not be able to determine which of the competitors crossed the line first, a photo or video taken at the finis ...
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Tie (draw)
A draw or tie occurs in a competitive sport when the results are identical or inconclusive. Ties or draws are possible in some, but not all, sports and games. Such an outcome, sometimes referred to as deadlock, can also occur in other areas of lif ...
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