Shard
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Shard may refer to:
- Sherd, a piece of glass, pottery or stone, e.g. sea glass
- Elytron, a forewing found on some insect species
- Shard London Bridge, a supertall skyscraper under construction in London, UK
- Slang for the drug methamphetamine, referring to its shard-like crystals
[edit] Popular culture
- Shard (comics), a comic book character
- Rex Shard, a character in the TV series SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron
- Shard (role-playing game), a role-playing game
[edit] Computing
- Shard (database architecture), a method of horizontal partitioning in a database, often used in a shared nothing architecture
- A game server hosting a massively multiplayer online game (MMOG)
[edit] See also
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