killing field

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The field of fire of a machine gun or artillery.
  2. A place of mass slaughter, especially the Killing Fields of Cambodia.
noun
  1. A vector field on a Riemannian manifold (or pseudo-Riemannian manifold) that preserves the metric.

Word forms

killing field killing fields

Etymology

Named after Wilhelm Killing.

Related words

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