Shield (disambiguation)

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A shield is a hand-held protective device meant to intercept attacks.

Shield may also refer to:

People

• Shield (surname)

Forms of protection

From attack

• Riot shield, used by police forces around the world for crowd control purposes
• Human shield, the use of civilians to deter an attack in warfare

From radiation

• Cold shield, used to protect an object from radiative heating
• Electromagnetic shielding, the use of conductive material to block electromagnetic fields
• Shielded cable, electrical conductors enclosed by a conductive layer
• Radiation shield, protection against ionizing radiation
• Lead shielding, the use of lead as a form of radiation protection

Other

• Dalkon Shield, a contraceptive intrauterine device (IUD)
• Heat shield, which protects a spacecraft or ballistic missile
• Tunnelling shield, used in excavation through soft soil

Geography and geology

• Shield Nunatak, a prominent nunatak in Antarctica
• Shield (geology), a large area of exposed rocks that is tectonically stable
• Shield Volcano, a type of volcano usually built almost entirely of fluid lava flows.
• Hydraulic shield, erosion on water courses erode smaller particles of soil, until the remaining (the larger ones) protect the soil from hydraulic erosion.

Entertainment and fiction

• Shield, a 1963 science-fiction novel by Poul Anderson
• The Shield (drama series), a television police drama
  • The Shield (video game), based on the television series
• S.H.I.E.L.D., a fictional agency in the Marvel comics universe
  • Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., a television series based on the Marvel comics
• Shield (Archie Comics), one of several fictional patriotic superheroes
• Shield (Artemis Fowl), in the Artemis Fowl novel series, a magical ability possessed by fairies
• Scyld Scefing (or Shield Sheafson), a legendary Danish king in the epic poem Beowulf
• "Shield" (song), a song by Deep Purple on the album The Book of Taliesyn

Professional wrestling

• The Shield (professional wrestling), a professional wrestling stable, consisting Dean Ambrose, Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns.

Sports

• Baskerville Shield, a trophy awarded to the winner of rugby league test series between Great Britain and New Zealand
• County Antrim Shield, a Northern Irish football competition
• County Championship Shield, formed in 2008 and originally played for by second tier teams in the RFU County Championship
• FA Community Shield, a British soccer trophy
• IFA Shield, an annual football competition organized by the Indian Football Association
• Indonesian Community Shield, a pre-season football competition held the week before the season begins in Indonesia every year
• Istanbul Shield, a soccer tournament which organised between 1930 and 1939
• J.J. Giltinan Shield, an Australian rugby league football trophy
• Johan Cruijff Shield, a football trophy in the Netherlands named after legendary Dutch football player Johan Cruyff, also often referred to as the Dutch Super Cup
• League Leader's Shield, a trophy awarded to the team finishing the season top of Super League in the sport of rugby league football
• MLS Supporters' Shield, an annual award given to the Major League Soccer team with the best regular season record, as determined by the MLS points system
• Sheffield Shield, a perpetual shield awarded to the Australian state cricket team that wins the final
• Thacker Shield, a rugby league football trophy awarded to the winner of a match between the champion clubs of the Canterbury Rugby League and West Coast Rugby League
• The Shield (professional wrestling), a professional wrestling stable in WWE

Technology

• The Nvidia Shield, an Android-based handheld game console.
• A device which adds functionality to an Arduino or other microcontroller development board

Other uses

• Shield (heraldry), the principal portion of a coat of arms
• Shield nickel, the first United States five cent piece to be made out of copper-nickel
• Shielding effect, in chemistry, reduced attraction of electrons to an atomic nucleus
• Highway shield, a sign displaying the name and/or number of the road along which it is placed
• Scutum, a small constellation near the celestial equator

See also

• Shields (disambiguation)

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