title: Shard
text: # 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
  