Shard
# 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, Germany
* The Shard, a skyscraper in London, United Kingdom

## Arts, entertainment, and media

* Shard (comics), 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

## Science and technology

* Shard (database architecture), a method of horizontal partitioning in a database
* Elytron or shard, a forewing found on some insect species
