shard

/ʃaːd//ʃɑːd//ʃɑɹd/

noun

  1. 1

    A piece of broken glass or pottery, especially one found in an archaeological dig.

  2. 2

    (by extension) A piece of material, especially rock and similar materials, reminding of a broken piece of glass or pottery.

  3. 3

    A tough scale, sheath, or shell; especially an elytron of a beetle.

  4. 4

    An instance of an MMORPG that is one of several independent and structurally identical virtual worlds, none of which has so many players as to exhaust a system's resources.

  5. 5

    A component of a sharded distributed database.

  6. 6

    (singular or plural) A piece of crystal methamphetamine.

Synonyms

verb

  1. 1

    To fall apart into shards, usually as the result of impact or explosion.

  2. 2

    To break (something) into shards.

  3. 3

    To divide (an MMORPG) into several shards, or to establish a shard of one.

noun

  1. 1

    The plant chard.

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