• Finnish: repiä, silputa, suikaloida
• Polish: drzeć, podrzeć

Noun

1. A long, narrow piece cut or torn off; a strip.
2. In general, a fragment; a piece; a particle.
3. (McDonald's lingo) Shredded lettuce.

Translations

• Finnish: suikale, kaistale
• Polish: strzęp

Shred, Shredder, or Shredding may refer to:

Mechanical devices

• Paper shredder, used in offices to destroy sensitive documents
• Woodchippers, which can shred wood, brush, etc.
• Food processor, a kitchen appliance which can shred food
• Industrial shredder, used in factories to crush concrete filled drums, hard drives, filing cabinets, heavy equipment, etc.

Music

• Neo-classical metal, a subgenre of heavy metal which occasionally is called "shred metal"
• Shred guitar, a unique style of electric guitar playing that focuses on quickly executing advanced techniques to increase the speed of the playing, often being utilized in the above-mentioned neo-classical metal

Sports

• "Shredder", an inflatable whitewater craft

Computing

• Metaphorically "shredding" a file or disk to counter data remanence
• Shredder (chess), a chess program developed by Stefan Meyer-Kahlen

Fiction

• Shredder (film), a 2003 horror film
• Shredder (TMNT), the main adversary of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• Shred (film), a film in production in 2008
• Shred 2, the sequel to the film Shred

Other

• Shredding (tree pruning technique)
• Shredding (disassembling genomic data)

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