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kill-to-death ratio en · NOUN

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Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) In multiplayer fighting and shooting video games, the number of kills a player scores divided by their number of deaths.
    • While “dying” in a video game is not much of a consequence itself, most game types in FPS involve respawning, allowing players repeatedly to throw themselves back into the battle. Even a highly skilled player with thousands of hours in online multiplayer matches will have a kill-to-death ratio hovering around 2.00 and will have witnessed several thousand deaths of his avatar. 2019, John Paul Wallis, Jay Mechling, “Playing Video Games”, in PTSD and Folk Therapy: Everyday Practices of American Masculinity in the Combat Zone, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 93:

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Synonyms

KDR · kill-death ratio · K/D · K/D ratio