Killing field
nounEtymology Named after Wilhelm Killing.
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Mathematics, Sciences A vector field on a Riemannian manifold (or pseudo-Riemannian manifold) that preserves the metric.
- Synonyms
- Killing vector field
- Related terms
- Killing horizon
killing field
nounalso spelled Killing field1
The field of fire of a machine gun or artillery.
- The story of how the son of a top-ranking US spy died fighting for Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine is an unlikely tale of how homegrown anger at the United States and online radicalisation led from a middle-class Virginia childhood to the killing fields of eastern Ukraine.2025 April 25, Andrew Roth, “Son of CIA deputy director was killed while fighting for Russia, report says”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
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A place of mass slaughter, especially the Killing Fields of Cambodia.