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, 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, a generalization of a Killing vector field
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Killie vector field or Killing field, a vector field on a Riemannian manisee
** The
Killing form, a symmetric bilinear form on a finite- Lie algae
People with the name
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Killing (surname)
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Killings (surname)
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Claus Killing-Günkel (born 1963), German interlinguist
See also
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Kill (disambiguation)
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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)
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Nonkilling
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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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