Definitions for killing field
killing field

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1. killing fieldnoun

   (usually plural) an area where many people have died (usually by massacre or genocide during war or violent civil disturbance)

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1. killing fieldnoun

   the field of fire of a machine gun or artillery

2. killing fieldnoun

   a place of mass slaughter; especially the Killing Fields of Cambodia

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1. killing field

   In mathematics, specifically in differential geometry, a killing field is a type of vector field on a Riemannian manifold (or, more generally, a pseudo-Riemannian manifold) that preserves the metric. This means that the flow generated by the Killing field consists of isometries, which are transformations that preserve the distance between points. Named after the German mathematician Wilhelm Killing, these fields are heavily used in the study of symmetry and conservation laws in physics, particularly in general relativity.

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1. Killing field

   A killing field, in military science, is an area in front of a defensive position that the enemy must cross during an assault and is specifically intended to allow the defending troops to incapacitate a large number of the enemy. Defensive emplacements such as anti-tank obstacles, barbed wire and minefields are often used to funnel the enemy into these killing fields. The fields are generally cleared of most cover so that attackers are exposed when being fired upon. Some methods of destroying the assault capabilities of attacking forces include machine guns, artillery and mortars; often with interlocking fields of fire. Such a term may be used to describe the approaches to an "ideal" defensive fortification. An example of a killing field would be the exposed beaches in front of the seawall at Normandy. The term originated in medieval warfare to describe clear areas outside of a castle's walls such as pastures or specifically cleared fields where enemy soldiers could be easily and methodically killed in large numbers by ranged weapons. It also refers to areas within castles specially designed to bunch attackers who had breached the outer defenses into an area where the defenders could kill them easily through arrow loops and murder holes. Often these were small courtyards surrounded by high walls.

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of killing field in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of killing field in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

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   The army came to the negotiating table with a long shopping list of demands that proved unfeasible, the two sides are now in the state of cold war. It's a political killing field.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
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2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Killing_Field
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4. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=killing field