Meanings
killing field1
plural killing fields
- 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 - A place of mass slaughter, especially the Killing Fields of Cambodia.
Killing field2
plural Killing fields
- mathematicsA vector field on a Riemannian manifold (or pseudo-Riemannian manifold) that preserves the metric.
Synonyms: Killing vector field
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA vector field on a Riemannian manifold (or pseudo-Riemannian manifold) that preserves the metric.
Origin
Named after Wilhelm Killing.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
killing field. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/killing%20field
“killing field.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/killing%20field. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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