Shrapnel may refer to:
Military
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Shrapnel shell
Shrapnel shells were anti-personnel artillery munitions which carried many individual bullets close to a target area and then ejected them to allow them to continue along the shell's trajectory and strike targets individually. They relied almo ...
, explosive artillery munitions, generally for anti-personnel use
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Shrapnel (fragment)
Fragmentation is the process by which the casing, shot, or other components of an anti-personnel weapon, bomb, barrel bomb, land mine, IED, artillery, mortar, tank gun, or autocannon shell, rocket, missile, grenade, etc. are dispersed and/or ...
, a hard loose material
Popular culture
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''Shrapnel'' (Radical Comics)
* ''Shrapnel'', a game by
Adam Cadre
Characters
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Shrapnel (DC Comics), a supervillain
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Shrapnel (Transformers)
''The Transformers'' is an American animated television series that originally aired from September 17, 1984, to November 11, 1987, in syndication
based upon Hasbro's ''Transformers'' toy line. The first television series in the ''Transformer ...
Music
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Shrapnel (American punk band), an American punk band
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Shrapnel (Welsh punk band)
Shrapnel was a punk rock band formed in 1981 in Briton Ferry, Wales. - ''It seems as if the majority of early Eighties punk bands formed out of boredom, and Shrapnel who got together during late 1981 in Briton Ferry, a drab small town just outsi ...
, a 1981–1988 musical group
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Shrapnel Records
Shrapnel Records is an American record label founded in 1980 by record producer Mike Varney.
History
Guitarist Marty Friedman (formerly of Megadeth and Cacophony), one of the label's most successful artists, first appeared on the album ''Unsu ...
, music label
* Shrapnel, a.k.a.
Metal Church, an American heavy metal band
* "Shrapnel", a song on the Atmosphere album ''
God Loves Ugly''
People
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Henry Jones Shrapnell (1792–1834), anatomist
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Henry Shrapnel
Lieutenant General Henry Shrapnel (3 June 1761 – 13 March 1842) was a British Army officer whose name has entered the English language as the inventor of the shrapnel shell.
Henry Shrapnel was born at Midway Manor in Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshir ...
(1761–1842), British Army officer and anti-personnel-munition innovator
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Norman Shrapnel (1912–2004), writer
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John Shrapnel (1942–2020), actor
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Hugh Shrapnel (born 1947), composer
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Lex Shrapnel
Alexander Carey Shrapnel (born 6 October 1979) is an English actor and voice actor.
Early life
Shrapnel was born on 6 October 1979 in London, the second of three boys for actor John Shrapnel and Francesca Ann (née Bartley). He is the brother of ...
(born 1979), actor
See also
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Shrapnell's membrane
In human anatomy, the pars flaccida of tympanic membrane or Shrapnell's membrane (also known as Rivinus' ligament) is the small, triangular, flaccid portion of the tympanic membrane, or eardrum. It lies above the malleolar folds attached directly ...
, a portion of the tympanic membrane
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