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Shard (database architecture)
A shard is a horizontal partition of a database: data is split into independent pieces distributed across multiple nodes, letting storage and workload scale beyond one server.
Sharda Sinha (शारदा सिन्हा)
Sharda Sinha (शारदा सिन्हा), the "Bihar Kokila" (1952–2024), was a folk singer of Maithili, Bhojpuri, and Magahi songs, famed for Chhath and wedding geet, Hindi film songs like "Kahe Tose Sajna", and Padma Shri, Padma Bhushan, and posthumous Padma Vibhushan honors.
Shardad Rohani
Shardad Rohani (شهرداد روحانی) is an Iranian-American composer, conductor, and violinist, born in Tehran and trained in Vienna, known for conducting Yanni's televised 1994 Live at the Acropolis concert.
Shardik
Shardik (1974) is Richard Adams's second novel, an epic fantasy set in the Beklan Empire where a giant bear is worshipped as the god Lord Shardik by the Ortelgans, following hunter Kelderek's rise to priest-king and fall; sequel-world prequel Maia (1984) shares the setting.
Shardlake
Shardlake is a 2024 four-part Disney+ Tudor murder-mystery series adapted from C.J. Sansom's novel Dissolution, starring Arthur Hughes, Sean Bean, and Anthony Boyle; cancelled January 2025 after one season.
Shardlake series
Shardlake series: C. J. Sansom's seven Tudor mystery novels (2003–2018) starring hunchbacked lawyer Matthew Shardlake, spanning 1537–1549 under Henry VIII and Edward VI, with an unfinished eighth novel and a 2024 Disney+/ITV adaptation.
Shards of Her (她和她的她)
Shards of Her (她和她的她) is a 2022 nine-episode Taiwanese Netflix mystery drama directed by Cho Li, starring Hsu Wei-ning as a headhunter confronting sexual-assault trauma; it won four Golden Bell Awards including Best Actress.
Shardul Shah
Shardul Shah is a partner at Index Ventures in New York, a Forbes Midas List investor best known for backing Datadog and the cloud security company Wiz.
Shardul Thakur (शर्दूल नरेंद्र ठाकुर)
Shardul Thakur (शर्दूल नरेंद्र ठाकुर), nicknamed 'Lord', is an Indian seam-bowling all-rounder. Seven IPL franchises including Mumbai Indians (traded 2025, INR 2 crore); ODI best 4/37; Mumbai Ranji captain 2025-26.
Shardulavikridita
Shardulavikridita (शार्दूलविक्रीडितम्, "play of the tiger") is a classical Sanskrit verse meter with 19 syllables per quarter, defined by the gaṇa sequence ma-sa-ja-sa-ta-ta-ga plus a final guru.
Share (finance)
A share, also called a share of stock, is a definite portion of a company's share capital giving its holder an ownership claim, normally with rights to dividends and votes.
Share class
A share class, or class of shares, is a grouping of shares from one issuer with different rights or costs, such as votes per share or fund fees.
Share repurchase
A share repurchase, also known as a stock buyback, is a transaction in which a company buys back its own stock from shareholders, reducing shares outstanding.
Share?
Share? is a 2023 American sci-fi thriller directed by Ira Rosensweig, starring Melvin Gregg as prisoner #000000014 with Bradley Whitford, Alice Braga, and Danielle Campbell; shot from one fixed camera angle, released November 10, 2023.
Sharebon
Sharebon (洒落本, "witty books") are a genre of Edo-period Japanese fiction about the pleasure quarters, written mainly in dialogue; Santō Kyōden led the genre at its 1772–1789 peak.
ShareChat
ShareChat is an Indian social media platform in regional languages, founded in 2015 by Ankush Sachdeva and two IIT Kanpur classmates and run by Bengaluru's Mohalla Tech, which also owns the short-video app Moj.
Sharecropping
Sharecropping is an agricultural contract in which a family works a landlord's land and pays with a share of the crop, typically half, rather than cash rent.
Shared autonomy
Shared autonomy is a human-robot interaction design paradigm in which a human operator and an autonomous controller jointly control a robot, adapting the robot's assistance to reduce the human's workload.
Shared lane marking
A shared lane marking, commonly called a sharrow, is a pavement marking of a bicycle symbol with two chevrons, placed in travel lanes shared by bicyclists and motor vehicles.
Shared medical appointments
A shared medical appointment, also called a group medical visit, is a clinical encounter where patients with a similar condition are seen together by a clinician team.
Shared memory
Shared memory is an interprocess communication technique in which multiple processes read and write the same region of physical memory directly, without copying or sending messages.
Shared Socioeconomic Pathways
The Shared Socioeconomic Pathways are five scenarios of 21st-century societal, economic, and demographic development created by climate researchers for the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report and CMIP6.
Shared space
Shared space is a street design approach that minimizes separation between vehicles and pedestrians by removing kerbs, signs, and markings, originating in the Netherlands in the late 1960s.
SHARED study
SHARED study (NCT04755881), a terminated Université de Sherbrooke observational trial in Saguenay, Quebec, testing clinical decision rules for early emergency discharge after anaphylaxis; all three rules failed interim validation.
Shared universe
Shared universe (shared world): a fictional universe where multiple writers contribute stand-alone works sharing one continuity, from Balzac's 1834 linked novels through Marvel's 1960s comics continuity to the MCU, with canon precedence rules and measurable post-Endgame profitability decline.
Shared village and hamlet names in the British Isles
Shared village and hamlet names in the British Isles are place names borne by several distinct settlements at once, such as Newtown, Newton, and Glebe.
Shared-nothing architecture
Shared-nothing architecture: distributed computing design, also called distributed-memory architecture, where each node owns its memory and disks and communicates by message passing; coined by Stonebraker 1986, known for scalability but load-skew difficulty.
Shared-title film families in Spanish-language cinema
Shared-title film families in Spanish-language cinema: remakes keeping titles (Elsa y Fred), coincidental homonyms (Volver a empezar, El faro, Taxi), ICAA title-conflict practice, cataloging rules, and the 162-remake Spanish market of 2000-2016.
Shareef Abdur-Rahim
Shareef Abdur-Rahim, NBA forward (1996-2008), third pick of the 1996 draft, 15,028 career points, 2000 Olympic gold, G League president from 2019 and creator of the G League Ignite program.
Shareef O'Neal
Shareef O'Neal (born 2000), son of Shaquille O'Neal, is an American basketball forward; UCLA and LSU player, 2022 undrafted, Lakers Summer League and G League Ignite, later free agent.