Shard or
sherd
In archaeology, a sherd, or more precisely, potsherd, is commonly a historic or prehistoric fragment of pottery, although the term is occasionally used to refer to fragments of stone and glass vessels, as well.
Occasionally, a piece of broken p ...
is a sharp piece of glass, pottery or stone.
Shard may also refer to:
Places
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Shard End
Shard End is an area of Birmingham, England. It is also a ward within the formal district of Hodge Hill. Shard End borders Castle Bromwich to the north and Kingshurst to the east which are situated in the northern part of the neighbouring ...
, a place in Birmingham, United Kingdom
Architecture
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Dresden Shard, a redesign of the Bundeswehr Military History Museum in Dresden, Germany
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The Shard, a skyscraper in London, United Kingdom
Arts, entertainment, and media
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Shard (comics), a character in the Marvel Comics universe
* Rex Shard, a character in ''
SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron''
* "The Shard", a chapter in ''
Mirror's Edge''
Science and technology
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Shard (database architecture)
A database shard, or simply a shard, is a horizontal partition of data in a database or search engine. Each shard is held on a separate database server instance, to spread load.
Some data within a database remains present in all shards, but some ...
, a method of horizontal partitioning in a database
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Elytron or shard, a forewing found on some insect species
See also
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Lauren Bell (cricketer), nicknamed The Shard
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Shared (disambiguation)
Shared may refer to:
* Sharing
* Shared ancestry or Common descent
* Shared care
* Shared-cost service
* Shared decision-making in medicine
* Shared delusion, various meanings
* Shared government
* Shared intelligence or collective intelligenc ...
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