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Shot

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ1175140
Source-derived summary

Shot may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Shot (album), by The Jesus Lizard

Shot, Illusion, New God, an EP by Gruntruck

Shot Rev 2.0, a video album by The Sisters of Mercy

"Shot" (song), by The Rasmus

Shot (2017 film), an American film starring Noah Wyle

Shot (filmmaking), a part of a film between two cuts

Organizations

Serious Hazards of Transfusion, or SHOT, an organisation monitoring blood transfusion errors in the UK

Society for the History of Technology, or SHOT, a professional organization for historians of technology

Sports

Shot (ice hockey), an attempt to score a goal or points

Home run, or shot in baseball slang

Shot put, an event in track and field athletics

SHOT Show (Shooting, Hunting, and Outdoor Trade Show), an annual trade show for the shooting, hunting, and firearms industry

Cricket shots, ways of hitting the ball to score in cricket

Weaponry and ballistics

Shot (pellet), small balls of metal generally used as shotgun projectiles, or as weights

Armor-piercing shot and shell, an artillery shell

Buckshot, a type of shotgun projectiles

Gunshot, discharge of a firearm

Round shot, a spherical solid metal projectile

Sho't, main battle tank

Other uses

Injection (medicine)

Shot (drink), a mixed alcoholic drink

Shot glass, a glass used typically for small portions alcohol.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Shot” as wikimedia disambiguation page. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2017—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Shot, Wikimedia and disambiguation can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as wikimedia disambiguation page. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1175140. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2017.

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The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from Shot” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.