Shredding

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Shredding, shred, or shredder may refer to:

Equipment

• Paper shredder
• Scrap metal shredder
• Woodchipper or tree shredder
• Industrial shredder
• Grater, a kitchen tool that can shred foods
• Food processor, a small appliance that can shred
• Garbage disposal unit, of kitchen sinks (or its grinding component particularly)
• Skiing
• Snowboard

Music

• Shred guitar, a virtuoso style of electric guitar playing

Companies

• Shred Optics, a manufacturer of sunglasses, helmets, and goggles

Computing

• shred (Unix), a Unix command for secure file deletion
• Shredding (data remanence), overwriting storage media with new data to erase it
  • Data Shredder, a data destruction utility
• Shredder (software), a chess program developed by Stefan Meyer-Kahlen
• Shredding (disassembling genomic data), in bioinformatics
• Shredder, the alpha build of Mozilla Thunderbird

Film

• Shredder (film), a 2003 film by Craig Donald Carlson and Greg Huson
• Shred (film), a 2008 film by David Mitchell

Other

• Shredding (tree-pruning technique)
• Shredder (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), a supervillain in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise
• Shredder, an inflatable whitewater craft
• Stracciatella, a food of Italian origin which involves shredding or little shreds

See also

• Spoliation of evidence, legal term for shredding of documents