Shard or sherd is a sharp piece of glass, pottery or stone. Shard may also refer to:

Places

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 Metr ...

, a place in Birmingham, United Kingdom

Architecture

* Dresden Shard, a redesign of the Bundeswehr Military History Museum in Dresden, Germany *

The Shard The Shard, also referred to as the Shard of Glass, Shard London Bridge, and formerly London Bridge Tower, is a 72-storey skyscraper, designed by the Italian architect Renzo Piano, in Southwark, London, that forms part of The Shard Quarter dev ...

, a skyscraper in London, United Kingdom

Arts, entertainment, and media

Shard (comics) Shard Bishop is a mutant fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Fictional character biography Shard was a Lieutenant in Xavier's Security Enforcers (X.S.E.) with her older brother Lucas Bishop in th ...

, 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 ''Mirror's Edge'' is an action-adventure platform game developed by DICE and published by Electronic Arts. It was released for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in 2008, and for Microsoft Windows in 2009. Set in a near-future city, the game follows th ...

Science and technology

* Shard (database architecture), a method of horizontal partitioning in a database *

Elytron An elytron (; ; , ) is a modified, hardened forewing of beetles (Coleoptera), though a few of the true bugs (Hemiptera) such as the family Schizopteridae are extremely similar; in true bugs, the forewings are called hemelytra (sometimes alterna ...

or shard, a forewing found on some insect species

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