# Shield (disambiguation)

A shield is a hand-held protective device meant to intercept attacks.
Shield may also refer to:

## Forms of protection
### 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

## Arts, entertainment, and media
### 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