• Sherd
  Sherd
  In archaeology, a sherd is commonly a historic or prehistoric fragment of pottery, although the term is occasionally used to refer to fragments of stone and glass vessels as well....
  
  , a piece of glass, pottery or stone, e.g. sea glass
• Elytron
  Elytron
  An elytron is a modified, hardened forewing of certain insect orders, notably beetles and a few of the true bugs ; in most true bugs, the forewings are instead called hemelytra, as only the basal half is thickened while the apex is membranous...
  
  , a forewing found on some insect species
• Shard London Bridge
  Shard London Bridge
  Shard London Bridge is a skyscraper under construction in Southwark, London. When completed in May 2012, it will be the tallest building in the European Union and the 45th-tallest building in the world, standing tall...
  
  , a supertall skyscraper under construction in London, UK
• Slang for the drug methamphetamine
  Methamphetamine
  Methamphetamine is a psychostimulant of the phenethylamine and amphetamine class of psychoactive drugs...
  
  , referring to its shard-like crystals

Popular culture

• Shard (comics)
  Shard (comics)
  Shard is a mutant character in the Marvel Comics universe.-Fictional character biography:Shard was a Lieutenant in Xavier's Security Enforcers, with her older brother Bishop in their native timeline in the 2080s. Shard was born in a mutant concentraton camp, in which mutants were branded over...
  
  , a comic book character
• Rex Shard, a character in the TV series SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron
  SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron
  SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron is an animated series for television created by Christian and Yvon Tremblay and produced by Hanna-Barbera and Turner Program Services. Every episode of the series was directed by Robert Alvarez. The bulk of the series was written by either Glenn Leopold or Lance Falk...
  
  
• Shard (role-playing game)
  Shard (role-playing game)
  Shard by Shard Studios is an anthropomorphic heroic-fantasy role-playing game set in Dárdünah, the World of the False Dawn, a secondary world fantasy setting which draws its influences from oriental culture.-Geography:...
  
  , a role-playing game

Computing

• Shard (database architecture)
  Shard (database architecture)
  A database shard is a horizontal partition in a database or search engine. Each individual partition is referred to as a shard or database shard.- Database architecture :...
  
  , a method of horizontal partitioning in a database, often used in a shared nothing architecture
  Shared nothing architecture
  A shared nothing architecture is a distributed computing architecture in which each node is independent and self-sufficient, and there is no single point of contention across the system...
  
  
• A game server
  Game server
  A game server is a remotely or locally run server used by game clients to play multiplayer video games. Most video games played over the Internet operate via a connection to a game server...
  
  hosting a massively multiplayer online game (MMOG)