Shard

Shard may refer to:

• Sherd (or shard), a piece of glass, pottery or stone—e.g., sea glass
• Elytron, a forewing found on some insect species
• Shard End, a place in Birmingham, United Kingdom
• The Shard, a skyscraper in London, United Kingdom
• Dresden Shard, a redesign of the Bundeswehr Military History Museum in Dresden, Germany
• Slang for the drug methamphetamine, referring to its shard-like crystals

Popular culture

• Shard (comics), a comic book character
• Rex Shard, a character in the TV series SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron
• Shard (role-playing game), a role-playing game
• A skyscraper and the name of the final chapter in the video game Mirror's Edge

Computing

• Shard (database architecture), a method of horizontal partitioning in a database, often used in a shared nothing architecture
• A game server hosting a massively multiplayer online game (MMOG)

See also

• All pages beginning with "Shard"
• All pages with titles containing Shard
• Shared (disambiguation)