Killing Explained

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), such as:
  • Homicide, one human killing another
    • Murder, unlawful killing of another human without justification or valid excuse
• Animal slaughter, the killing of animals
• Abortion

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 (American 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 (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 Wilhelm Killing:
  • Killing tensor, a generalization of a Killing vector field
  • Killing vector field or Killing field, a vector field on a Riemannian manifold
  • The Killing form, a symmetric bilinear form on a finite-dimensional Lie algebra

People with the name

• Killing (surname)
• Killings (surname)
• Claus Killing-Günkel (born 1963), German interlinguist

See also

• • • Kill (disambiguation)
• Killed in action
• Nonkilling
• Death