Shield (disambiguation)

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A shield is a hand-held protective device meant to intercept attacks.

Shield may also refer to:

Forms of protection

Human shield, the use of civilians to deter an attack in warfare
Riot shield, used by police forces around the world for crowd control purposes
SHiELD, acronym for the United States Self-Protect High-Energy Laser Demonstrator defensive laser weapon

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

Dalkon Shield, a contraceptive intrauterine device (IUD)
Gravitational shield, a hypothetical process of shielding an object from the influence of a gravitational field
Heat shield, which protects a spacecraft or ballistic missile
Tunnelling shield, used in excavation through soft soil
Shielding, or cocooning, action taken by those who are clinically extremely vulnerable in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic

Écu ("shield" in French), unit of currency, historically used in France
Escudo ("shield" in Portuguese and Spanish), unit of currency, historically used in Portugal, Spain, and their former colonies, and still used in Cape Verde to this day
Scudo (disambiguation) ("shield" in Italian), a unit of currency, historically used in Bolivia, several former Italian states, and Malta
Shield nickel, the first United States five cent piece to be made out of copper-nickel

Shield (geology), a large area of exposed rocks that is tectonically stable
Shield Nunatak, a prominent nunatak in Antarctica
Shield volcano, a type of volcano usually built almost entirely of fluid lava flows

Shield (Archie Comics), one of several fictional patriotic superheroes
Shield (Artemis Fowl), in the Artemis Fowl novel series, a magical ability possessed by fairies
S.H.I.E.L.D., a fictional agency in the Marvel comics universe, led by Nick Fury
Scyld Scefing (or Shield Sheafson), a legendary Danish king in the epic poem Beowulf

Pokémon Shield, one of the two paired Pokémon Sword and Shield games for the Nintendo Switch
The Shield (video game), based on the television series

Aspis (Menander), translated as The Shield, a comedy play by Menander
"Shield" (song), a song by Deep Purple on the album The Book of Taliesyn
Shield (1963), a science-fiction novel by Poul Anderson
Shield of Heracles, an archaic Greek epic poem attributed to Hesiod, concerning the expedition of Heracles and Iolaus against Cycnus

Baskerville Shield, a trophy awarded to the winner of rugby league test series between Great Britain and New Zealand
County Antrim Shield, a Northern Irish football competition
County Championship Shield, formed in 2008 and originally played for by second tier teams in the RFU County Championship
FA Community Shield, an English football trophy
IFA Shield, an annual football competition organized by the Indian Football Association
Indonesian Community Shield, a pre-season football competition held the week before the season begins in Indonesia every year
Istanbul Shield, a Turkish football tournament which organised between 1930 and 1939
J. J. Giltinan Shield, an Australian rugby league football trophy
Johan Cruyff Shield, a football trophy in the Netherlands named after legendary Dutch football player Johan Cruyff, also often referred to as the Dutch Super Cup
League Leaders' Shield, a trophy awarded to the team finishing the season top of Super League in the sport of rugby league football
Sheffield Shield, a perpetual shield awarded to the Australian state cricket team that wins the final
Supporters' Shield, an annual award given to the Major League Soccer team with the best regular season record, as determined by the MLS points system
Thacker Shield, a rugby league football trophy awarded to the winner of a match between the champion clubs of the Canterbury Rugby League and West Coast Rugby League
The Shield (professional wrestling), a professional wrestling stable in WWE

Shield (heraldry), the principal portion of a coat of arms
Shield (surname)
Highway shield, the United States uses shield-shaped signs for route markers, signs displaying the name and/or number of the road along which it is placed
Shielding effect, in chemistry, reduced attraction of electrons to an atomic nucleus
Scutum (constellation) (Latin for "Shield"), a small constellation near the celestial equator
a police officer’s badge