Shard

Shard may refer to:

• Sherd, a piece of glass, pottery or stone, e.g. sea glass
• Elytron, a forewing found on some insect species
• Shard London Bridge, a supertall skyscraper under construction in London, UK
• 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

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)