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execution | lingchi |

As a noun execution

is execution.

execution

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act, manner or style of executing (actions, maneuvers, performances).
  • *
  • The state of being executed (accomplished).
    • The battle plan was successfully executed .
  • The act of putting to death or being put to death as a penalty, or actions so associated.
  • (legal) The carrying into effect of a court judgment, or of a will.
  • (legal) The formal process by which a contract is made valid and put into binding effect.
  • (computing) The carrying out of an instruction, program or program segment by a computer.
    • The entire machine slowed down during the execution of the virus checker .
    Whenever the matrix inversion function executed the program crashed.

    Derived terms

    * execution style * posthumous execution

    Related terms

    * execute * executioner * executive * executor

    Hyponyms

    * (penalty of death) crucifixion, electrocution, hanging, lethal injection

    External links

    * * ----

    lingchi

    English

    (wikipedia lingchi)

    Noun

    (-)
  • A form of execution used in China from roughly 900 to 1905 , the "death by a thousand cuts", in which the condemned was killed by methodical removal of body parts with a knife.
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    • , passage=The face of the dying man in the lingchi video monotonously evokes Maria Falconetti in Carl Theodor Dreyer ’s 1928 “Passion of Joan of Arc.” }}