shrapnel

As nouns the difference between shrapnel and splinter

is that shrapnel is (historical) an anti-personnel artillery shell used in wwi which carries a large number of individual bullets close to the target and then ejects them to allow them to continue along the shell's trajectory and strike the target individually while splinter is a long, sharp fragment of material, often wood.

As a verb splinter is

to come apart into long sharp fragments.

As nouns the difference between shrapnel and fragmentation

is that shrapnel is (historical) an anti-personnel artillery shell used in wwi which carries a large number of individual bullets close to the target and then ejects them to allow them to continue along the shell's trajectory and strike the target individually while fragmentation is the act of fragmenting or something fragmented; disintegration.

In lang=en terms the difference between kernel and shrapnel

is that kernel is the human clitoris while shrapnel is loose change.

As nouns the difference between kernel and shrapnel

is that kernel is the core, center, or essence of an object or system while shrapnel is an anti-personnel artillery shell used in WWI which carries a large number of individual bullets close to the target and then ejects them to allow them to continue along the shell's trajectory and strike the target individually.

As nouns the difference between fragments and shrapnel

is that fragments is while shrapnel is (historical) an anti-personnel artillery shell used in wwi which carries a large number of individual bullets close to the target and then ejects them to allow them to continue along the shell's trajectory and strike the target individually.

As nouns the difference between shrapnel and splinters

is that shrapnel is an anti-personnel artillery shell used in WWI which carries a large number of individual bullets close to the target and then ejects them to allow them to continue along the shell's trajectory and strike the target individually while splinters is plural of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between taxonomy and shrapnel

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while shrapnel is (historical) an anti-personnel artillery shell used in wwi which carries a large number of individual bullets close to the target and then ejects them to allow them to continue along the shell's trajectory and strike the target individually.