Shield (disambiguation)

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

Shield may also refer to:

From attack

 * 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

From radiation

 * 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

Other forms of protection

 * 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

Currency

 * 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

Geography and geology

 * 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

Fictional entities

 * 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

Games

 * 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

Television

 * Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., a television series based on the Marvel comics
 * The Shield, a television police drama

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

 * 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

Sports

 * 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

Technology and transportation

 * Bumper (car), known as shield in British English
 * Shield, name for expansion boards for Arduino microcontroller kits
 * The Nvidia range of Android-based gaming products, including:
 * Nvidia Shield TV
 * Shield Portable
 * Shield Tablet

Other uses

 * 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