Shatter or shattering may refer to: * To violently break something into pieces; see

fracture Fracture is the separation of an object or material into two or more pieces under the action of stress. The fracture of a solid usually occurs due to the development of certain displacement discontinuity surfaces within the solid. If a displa ...

Entertainment

Books

* ''Shatter'' (novel), a 2008 novel by Australian author Michael Robotham * '' Shatter Me'', a 2011 young adult dystopian thriller by Tahereh Mafi * ''The Shattering'' (novel), a book in the ''Guardians of Ga'Hoole'' fantasy book series * '' The Shattering: America in the 1960s'', a 2021 book by historian Kevin Boyle

Films

* ''Shatter'' (film), a 1974 film shot on location in Hong Kong * ''

Shatter Dead ''Shatter Dead'' is a 1994 independent zombie film directed by Scooter McCrae. Its plot concerns a dystopian world where the dead no longer stay dead, but remain cognizant of the world around them; amidst this world, a woman named Susan attempts to ...

'', a 1994 independent zombie film directed by Scooter McCrae

Music

* ''Shatter'' (EP), a 2010 recording by Swiss black metal band Triptykon * "Shatter" (song), a 2005 song by the British rock band Feeder * "Shatter", a song from the 1997 album '' Blurring the Edges'' by Meredith Brooks * ''Shatter Me'' (album), a 2014 studio album by American violinist and solo artist Lindsey Stirling ** ''Shatter Me'' (song), a song from that album

Other

* ''Shatter'' (comics), a Marvel Comics fictional mutant character * ''Shatter'' (digital comic), published by First Comics during 1985–1988 * ''Shatter'' (video game), a 2009 video game by Sidhe Interactive

People

Alan Shatter Alan Joseph Shatter (born 14 February 1951) is an Irish lawyer, author and former Fine Gael politician who served as Minister for Justice and Equality and Minister for Defence from 2011 to 2014. He was a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin Sou ...

(born 1951), Irish politician *

Susan Louise Shatter Susan Louise Shatter (1943–2011) was an American landscape painter. Shatter painted landscapes in both oil and watercolor, preferring the earth tones of volcanic canyons or rocky coastlines rather than the green pastoral settings more traditio ...

(1943–2011), American landscape painter

Other uses

* Shatter (cannabis), a concentrate made from cannabis * Shatter attack, in computing, a technique used against Microsoft Windows operating systems * Shatter belt, another term for a geological fault * Shatter belt (geopolitics), a concept in geopolitics pertaining to regions that are deeply internally divided * Shatter Cave, a cave in the Mendip Hills, in Somerset, England * Shattering (agriculture), an undesirable trait in crop plants that makes harvesting difficult *

Shattering (machine learning) The concept of shattered sets plays an important role in Vapnik–Chervonenkis theory, also known as VC-theory. Shattering and VC-theory are used in the study of empirical processes as well as in statistical computational learning theory. Def ...

, a concept in mathematics, especially Vapnik–Chervonenkis theory