Shard

Quick meaning: Shard is a noun meaning A piece of broken glass or pottery, especially one found in an archaeological dig.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (by extension) A piece of material, especially rock and similar materials, reminding of a broken piece of glass or pottery.
2. A tough scale, sheath, or shell; especially an elytron of a beetle.
3. (databases) A component of a sharded distributed database.
4. (intransitive) To fall apart into shards, usually as the result of impact or explosion.
5. (transitive) To break (something) into shards.
6. (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.
7. (slang, in the singular or in the plural) A piece of crystal methamphetamine.

Example Sentences

You know there is something fascinating beyond that wall because someone's tried to stop you seeing over, and there are shards of glass embedded in the top.

Not Heathpout, or the rarer Bird, Which Phasis, or Ionia yields, More pleasing Morsels would afford Than the fat Olives of my Fields; Than Shards or Mallows for the Pot, That keep the loosen’d Body sound, Or than the Lamb that falls by Lot, To the just Guardian of my Ground.

Word Forms

• shards
• sharding
• sharded

Synonyms for shard

Depending on context, synonyms include potsherd, splinter, partition, fragment, sherd.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include fragment, sherd, splinter, sliver, outburst, flare.

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