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, 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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