▸ noun: A piece of broken glass or pottery, especially one found in an archaeological dig. ▸ noun: (by extension) A piece of material, especially rock and similar materials, reminding of a broken piece of glass or pottery. ▸ noun: A tough scale, sheath, or shell; especially an elytron of a beetle. ▸ noun: (online gaming) 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. ▸ noun: (databases) A component of a sharded distributed database. ▸ noun: (slang, in the singular or in the plural) A piece of crystal methamphetamine. ▸ verb: (intransitive) To fall apart into shards, usually as the result of impact or explosion. ▸ verb: (transitive) To break (something) into shards. ▸ verb: (online gaming, transitive) To divide (an MMORPG) into several shards, or to establish a shard of one. ▸ noun: The plant chard. ▸ Also see shardshard, sherd, fragment, splinters, piece, shrapnel, bits, sliver, chunk, fleck, pebble, more... |
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