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Killing, Killings, or The Killing may refer to:


Arts, entertainment, and media


Films

* ''Killing'' (film), a 2018 Japanese film * ''The Killing'' (film), a 1956 film noir directed by Stanley Kubrick


Television

* ''The Killing'' (Danish TV series), a police procedural drama first broadcast in 2007 * ''The Killing'' (U.S. TV series), a crime drama based on the Danish television series, first broadcast in 2011


Literature

* ''Killing'' (comics), Italian photo comic series about a vicious vigilante-criminal * ''Killing'', a series of historical nonfiction books by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard * "Killings" (short story), a short story by Andre Dubus * ''The Killing'' (Muchamore novel), a CHERUB series installment by Robert Muchamore * ''The Killing'', a 2012 novelization of the Danish TV series by
David Hewson David Hewson (born 9 January 1953) is a contemporary British author of mystery novels. His series of mysteries, featuring police officers In Rome, led by the young detective and art lover Nic Costa, began with ''A Season for the Dead'', has n ...


Music

* "Killing", a song on the album '' Echoes'' by The Rapture * "Killing", a song from an
untitled Korn album The untitled eighth studio album by American nu metal band Korn, often unofficially referred to as ''Korn II'', was released on July 31, 2007, by Virgin Records. It is the band's only studio release without an official drummer, released between t ...
released in 2007 * ''The Killing'' (EP), by Hatesphere


Mathematics

* Several concepts named after
Wilhelm Killing Wilhelm Karl Joseph Killing (10 May 1847 – 11 February 1923) was a German mathematician who made important contributions to the theories of Lie algebras, Lie groups, and non-Euclidean geometry. Life Killing studied at the University of Mü ...
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Killing tensor In mathematics, a Killing tensor or Killing tensor field is a generalization of a Killing vector, for symmetric tensor fields instead of just vector fields. It is a concept in pseudo-Riemannian geometry, and is mainly used in the theory of general ...
, a generalization of a Killing vector field **
Killing vector field In mathematics, a Killing vector field (often called a Killing field), named after Wilhelm Killing, is a vector field on a Riemannian manifold (or pseudo-Riemannian manifold) that preserves the metric. Killing fields are the infinitesimal gene ...
or Killing field, a vector field on a
Riemannian manifold In differential geometry, a Riemannian manifold or Riemannian space , so called after the German mathematician Bernhard Riemann, is a real manifold, real, smooth manifold ''M'' equipped with a positive-definite Inner product space, inner product ...
** The
Killing form In mathematics, the Killing form, named after Wilhelm Killing, is a symmetric bilinear form that plays a basic role in the theories of Lie groups and Lie algebras. Cartan's criteria (criterion of solvability and criterion of semisimplicity) show ...
, a symmetric
bilinear form In mathematics, a bilinear form is a bilinear map on a vector space (the elements of which are called '' vectors'') over a field ''K'' (the elements of which are called ''scalars''). In other words, a bilinear form is a function that is linear i ...
on a finite-dimensional
Lie algebra In mathematics, a Lie algebra (pronounced ) is a vector space \mathfrak g together with an Binary operation, operation called the Lie bracket, an Alternating multilinear map, alternating bilinear map \mathfrak g \times \mathfrak g \rightarrow ...


People with the name

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Killing (surname) Killing is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alison Killing, British architect and urban designer * Laure Killing (1959–2019), French actress *Wesley Killing (born 1993), Canadian pair skater *Wilhelm Killing (1847–1923), Ge ...
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Killings (surname) Killings is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Cedric Killings (born 1977), American football player *Debra Killings (born 1966), American singer and bass guitarist * D. J. Killings (born 1995), American football player *Ron Kill ...
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Claus Killing-Günkel Claus Killing-Günkel (born Günkel; 9 October 1963), in Esperanto also known as Nikolao Günkel, is a German teacher and interlinguistics, interlinguist. Life Claus J. Killing-Günkel was born Claus J. Günkel in Eschweiler, a city in wester ...
(born 1963), German interlinguist


See also

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Kill (disambiguation) Kill often refers to: *Homicide, one human killing another *cause death, to kill a living organism, to cause its death Kill may also refer to: Media *''Kill!'', a 1968 film directed by Kihachi Okamoto * ''Kill'' (Cannibal Corpse album), 2006 * ...
* Killed in action *
Nonkilling Nonkilling, popularised as a concept in the 2002 book '' Nonkilling Global Political Science,'' by Glenn D. Paige, refers to the absence of killing, threats to kill, and conditions conducive to killing in human society. Even though the use of th ...
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