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killing field

killing field noun: the field of fire of a machine gun or artillery.

Noun (1)

killing field (plural killing fields)

  1. 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
  2. A place of mass slaughter, especially the Killing Fields of Cambodia.

Noun (2) capitalized: Killing field

Killing field (plural Killing fields)

  1. A vector field on a Riemannian manifold (or pseudo-Riemannian manifold) that preserves the metric.

Synonyms of killing field

Forms of killing field

pluralkilling fields
pluralKilling fields

Origin of killing field

Named after Wilhelm Killing.

Questions about killing field

What does killing field mean?
Killing field means the field of fire of a machine gun or artillery.
What part of speech is killing field?
Killing field is a noun.
What is the plural of killing field?
The plural of killing field is killing fields.

Words near killing field in the dictionary

  1. killing
  2. killing bottle
  3. killing bottles
  4. killing box
  5. killing boxes
  6. killing field
  7. killing fields
  8. killing floor
  9. killing floors
  10. Killing form
  11. Killing forms

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