| Subject | English | German |
| comp., MS | database shard | Datenbank-Shard, horizontale Datenbankpartition (A database partition generated as a product of splitting a large database into chunks in a distributed scalable database system) |
| fig. | heap of shards | Scherbenhaufen auch fig. |
| entomol. | shard-born beetle | Großer Roßkäfer (Geotrupes stercorarius) |
| entomol. | shard-born beetle | Gemeiner Roßkäfer (Geotrupes stercorarius) |
| gen. | shard of glass | Glasscherbe |