Killing, Killings, or The Killing may refer to:
Types of killing
*-cide, a suffix that refers to types of killing (see
List of types of killing
In the English language, terms for types of killing often end in the suffix ''-cide''.
Suicide, intentionally causing one's own death.
* Altruistic suicide, suicide for the benefit of others.
* Medicide, a suicide accomplished with the aid of a ph ...
), such as:
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Homicide
Homicide is an act in which a person causes the death of another person. A homicide requires only a Volition (psychology), volitional act, or an omission, that causes the death of another, and thus a homicide may result from Accident, accidenta ...
, one human killing another
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Murder
Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification (jurisprudence), justification or valid excuse (legal), excuse committed with the necessary Intention (criminal law), intention as defined by the law in a specific jurisd ...
, unlawful killing of another human without justification or valid excuse
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Animal slaughter
Animal slaughter is the killing of animals, usually referring to killing Domestication, domestic livestock. It is estimated that each year, 80 billion land animals are slaughtered for food. Most animals are slaughtered for Human food, food; how ...
, the killing of animals
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Assisted dying
Arts, entertainment, and media
Films
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''Killing'' (film), a 2018 Japanese film
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''The Killing'' (film), a 1956 film noir directed by Stanley Kubrick
* ''
Encounter: The Killing'', a 2002 Indian film by Ajay Phansekar
Television
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''The Killing'' (Danish TV series), a police procedural drama first broadcast in 2007
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''The Killing'' (American TV series), a crime drama based on the Danish television series, first broadcast in 2011
Literature
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''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
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"Killings" (short story), a short story by Andre Dubus
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''The Killing'' (novel), a CHERUB series installment by Robert Muchamore
* ''The Killing'', a 2012 novelization of the Danish TV series by
David Hewson
Music
* "Killing", a song on the album ''
Echoes'' by The Rapture
* "Killing", a song from an
untitled Korn album released in 2007
* ''The Killing'', an EP by
Hatesphere
Mathematics
* Several concepts named after
Wilhel Killing:
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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 Riemannian and pseudo-Riemannian geometry, and is mainly used in th ...
, a generalization of a Killing vector field
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Killie vector field
Kilmarnock ( ; ; , ), meaning "the church of Mernóc", is a town and former burgh in East Ayrshire situated in southwest Scotland. The town has served as the administrative centre of East Ayrshire Council since 1996 and is the region's main ...
or Killing field, a vector field on a Riemannian manisee
** 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) sho ...
, a symmetric bilinear form on a finite- Lie algae
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), G ...
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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 Ki ...
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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 interlinguist.
Life
Claus J. Killing-Günkel was born Claus J. Günkel in Eschweiler, a city in western Rhineland, wh ...
(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
Other common uses include:
* Kill (body of water), a body of water, most commonly a creek
* Kill (command), a computing command
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Killed in action
Killed in action (KIA) is a casualty classification generally used by militaries to describe the deaths of their personnel at the hands of enemy or hostile forces at the moment of action. The United States Department of Defense, for example, ...
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Killin (disambiguation) Killin is a village by Loch Tay in Stirling council area, Scotland.
Killin may also refer to:
* Killin incident of 1749
* Killin Railway
* Killin railway station
* Killin Junction railway station
* Loch Killin, a small freshwater loch in High ...
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Nonkilling
Nonkilling refers to the absence of killing, threats to kill, and conditions conducive to killing in human society. It traces its origin from the broader concept of ahimsa or nonviolence, one of the central tenets of Indian religions, namely, Ja ...
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Death
Death is the end of life; the irreversible cessation of all biological functions that sustain a living organism. Death eventually and inevitably occurs in all organisms. The remains of a former organism normally begin to decompose sh ...
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