Shield

Shield may refer to:

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Technologies

Protection from people

• Shield, a hand-held protective device meant to intercept attacks
  • Riot shield, used by police forces around the world for crowd control purposes
• Human shield, the use of civilians to deter an attack in warfare

Protection from radiation

• Cold shield, used to protect an object from radiative heating
• Electromagnetic shielding, the use of conductive material to block electromagnetic fields
  • Shielded cable, electrical conductors enclosed by a conductive layer
• Radiation shield, protection against ionizing radiation
  • Lead shielding, the use of lead as a form of radiation protection

Other forms of protection

• Dalkon Shield, a contraceptive intrauterine device (IUD)
• Heat shield, which protects a spacecraft or ballistic missile
• Tunnelling shield, used in excavation through soft soil

Places

• Shield Row, Durham, England
• Daddry Shield, Durham, England

In entertainment and fiction

• In science fiction, a protective force field
  • In particular, shields in Star Trek
• The Shield, a television police drama
  • The Shield (video game), based on the television series
• S.H.I.E.L.D., a fictional agency in the Marvel comics universe
• Shield (Archie Comics), one of several fictional patriotic superheroes
• Shield (Artemis Fowl), in the Artemis Fowl novel series, a magical ability possessed by fairies
• Scyld Scefing (or Shield Sheafson), a legendary Danish king in the epic poem Beowulf
• Shield, a song by Deep Purple on the album The Book of Taliesyn

Other uses

• Shielding effect, in chemistry, reduced attraction of electrons to an atomic nucleus
• Shield (heraldry), the principal portion of a coat of arms
• Shield (geology), a large region of exposed Precambrian basement rock mass, usually at the center of a continent
• Badge, called a "shield" in North American slang
• Shields sailboat, a sailboat class
• U.S. Route shield, the marker used for United States Numbered Highways
• FA Community Shield, a British soccer trophy

See also

• Shields (disambiguation)

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