Shrapnel (disambiguation)

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Shrapnel refers to fragments produced by an explosion or to the spherical shot or musket balls dispersed when a shrapnel shell bursts.

It may also refer to:

People
  • Henry Shrapnel, (1761-1842) was a British Army officer and inventor, most famously of the shrapnel shell
  • John Shrapnel, (b. 1942) an English actor
Other
  • Shrapnel (Transformers), an insidious Insecticon who transforms into a stag beetle
  • Shrapnel (comics), a DC Comics supervillain
  • Shrapnel Records, a guitar-oriented music label formed out of Mike Varney's 'Guitar Spotlight' column in the back of Guitar Player magazine
  • Shrapnell's membrane, the small, triangular, flaccid portion of the tympanic membrane lying above the malleolar folds