Shatter or shattering may refer to:
* The act of violently
breaking into small pieces
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Alan Shatter
Alan Joseph Shatter (born 14 February 1951) is an Irish lawyer, author and former Fine Gael politician who served as Minister for Justice and Equality and Minister for Defence from 2011 to 2014. He was a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin Sou ...
, Irish politician
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Susan Louise Shatter (1943–2011), American landscape painter
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Shattering (machine learning)
The concept of shattered sets plays an important role in Vapnik–Chervonenkis theory, also known as VC-theory. Shattering and VC-theory are used in the study of empirical processes as well as in statistical computational learning theory.
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, a concept in mathematics, especially Vapnik–Chervonenkis theory
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Shatter attack In computing, a shatter attack is a programming technique employed by hackers on Microsoft Windows operating systems to bypass security restrictions between processes in a session. A shatter attack takes advantage of a design flaw in Windows's mes ...
, in computing, a technique used against ''Microsoft Windows'' operating systems
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Shattering (agriculture)
In agriculture, shattering is the dispersal of a crop's seeds upon their becoming ripe. From an agricultural perspective this is generally an undesirable process, and in the history of crop domestication several important advances have involved a ...
, an undesirable trait in crop plants that makes harvesting difficult
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, a concentrate made from cannabis
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Brisance
In explosives engineering, brisance (; , ) is the shattering capability of a high explosive, determined mainly by its detonation pressure.
Practical uses
Brisance is of practical importance for determining the effectiveness of an explosion in f ...
the shattering capability of a high explosive, determined mainly by its detonation pressure.
Entertainment
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''Shatter'' (film), a 1974 film
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''Shatter'' (comics), the Marvel Comics fictional mutant character
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''Shatter'' (digital comic), the First Comics digital comic
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''Shatter'' (novel), a 2008 novel by Australian author Michael Robotham
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''Shatter'' (video game), a 2009 video game by Sidhe Interactive
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''Shatter'' (EP), a 2010 recording by Swiss black metal band Triptykon
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''Shatter'' (song), by the British rock band Feeder
* ''Shatter'' a song from the album ''
Oddities'' by the band London After Midnight
* ''Shatter'' a song from the album ''
Blurring the Edges
''Blurring the Edges'' is the second studio album by American singer-songwriter Meredith Brooks. It was released on May 6, 1997, by Capitol Records. Following the release of her self-titled debut album in 1986 and her departure from the short-liv ...
'' by Meredith Brooks
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Fracture (disambiguation)
A fracture is the (local) separation of a body into two, or more, pieces under the action of stress.
Fracture may also refer to:
* Bone fracture, a medical condition in which a bone is cracked or broken
* Microfracture surgery surgical repair tec ...
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Fragment (disambiguation)
Fragment may refer to:
Entertainment
Television and film
* Fragments (Torchwood), "Fragments" (''Torchwood''), an episode from the BBC TV series
* "Fragments", an episode from the Canadian TV series ''Sanctuary (TV series), Sanctuary''
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