Shrapnel
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Shrapnel may refer to:
Military
- Shrapnel shell, an anti-personnel artillery munition used until World War II
- Fragmentation thrown out by an exploding bomb or shell: See Fragmentation (weaponry)
- British slang term for loose change, possibly in the military sense of metal
Arts, entertainment, and media
Comics
- Shrapnel (comic book), a limited series from Radical Comic
Fictional characters
- Shrapnel (DC Comics), a DC Comics supervillain
- Shrapnel (Transformers), a character in Transformers
Movies
- Star Wars, material used by the Imperial Navy to build TIE Fighters
Music
- Shrapnel (Welsh punk band), a 1981–1988 musical group
- Shrapnel Records, a music label
- Shrapnel, also known as Metal Church, a heavy metal band
- Shrapnel, song no. 18 from the album God Loves Ugly of Atmosphere
People with the surname
- Henry Shrapnel (1761–1842), British Army officer and inventor of the anti-personnel artillery munition bearing his name
- Henry Jones Shrapnell (1792–1834), English anatomist
- Hugh Shrapnel (born 1947), English composer
- John Shrapnel (born 1942), English actor, son of Norman
- Lex Shrapnel (born 1979), English actor, son of John Shrapnel
- Norman Shrapnel (1912–2004), English columnist and writer, father of John Shrapnel
See also
- Shrapnell's membrane, a portion of the tympanic membrane
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