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is a sharp piece of glass, pottery or stone.
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Shard End
Shard End is an area of Birmingham, England. It is also a ward within the formal district of Hodge Hill. Shard End borders Castle Bromwich to the north and Kingshurst to the east which are situated in the northern part of the neighbouring Metr ...
, a place in Birmingham, United Kingdom
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Dresden Shard
Shard or sherd is a sharp piece of glass, pottery or stone.
Shard may also refer to:
Places
* Shard End, a place in Birmingham, United Kingdom
Architecture
* Dresden Shard, a redesign of the Bundeswehr Military History Museum in Dresden, Germa ...
, a redesign of the Bundeswehr Military History Museum in Dresden, Germany
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The Shard
The Shard, also referred to as the Shard London Bridge and formerly London Bridge Tower, is a 72-storey mixed-use development supertall pyramid-shaped skyscraper, designed by the Italian architect Renzo Piano, in Southwark, London, that for ...
, a skyscraper in London, United Kingdom
Arts, entertainment, and media
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Shard (comics)
Shard Bishop is a mutant fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
Publication history
Created by Scott Lobdell and John Romita Jr., the character first appeared in ''The Uncanny X-Men'' #314 (July 1994). ...
, a character in the Marvel Comics universe
* Rex Shard, a character in ''
SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron''
* "The Shard", a chapter in ''
Mirror's Edge
''Mirror's Edge'' is a 2008 action-adventure platform game developed by DICE and published by Electronic Arts. The game was released for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in November 2008, and for Windows in January 2009. Set in a near-future city, i ...
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Shard (database architecture)
A database shard, or simply a shard, is a horizontal partition of data in a database or search engine. Each shard may be held on a separate database server instance, to spread load.
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, a method of horizontal partitioning in a database
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Elytron
An elytron (; ; : elytra, ) is a modified, hardened forewing of beetles (Coleoptera), though a few of the true bugs (Hemiptera) such as the family Schizopteridae are extremely similar; in true bugs, the forewings are called hemelytra (sometimes ...
or shard, a forewing found on some insect species
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Lauren Bell (cricketer)
Lauren Katie Bell (born 2 January 2001) is an English cricketer who plays for Hampshire and Southern Brave. She has previously played for Berkshire, Southern Vipers, UP Warriorz, Sydney Thunder and Middlesex. Bell made her international debut ...
, nicknamed The Shard
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Shared (disambiguation)
Shared may refer to:
* Sharing
* Shared ancestry or Common descent
* Shared care
* Shared-cost service
* Shared decision-making in medicine
* Shared delusion, various meanings
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