shard

IPA: ʃˈɑrd

A piece of broken glass or pottery, especially one found in an archaeological dig.
(by extension) A piece of material, especially rock and similar materials, reminding of a broken piece of glass or pottery.
A tough scale, sheath, or shell; especially an elytron of a beetle.
(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.
(databases) A component of a sharded distributed database.
(slang, in the singular or in the plural) A piece of crystal methamphetamine.
The plant chard.

(intransitive) To fall apart into shards, usually as the result of impact or explosion.
(transitive) To break (something) into shards.
(online gaming, transitive) To divide (an MMORPG) into several shards, or to establish a shard of one.

Examples of "shard" in Sentences

He then scattered the shards.
Do we really need the bit about the shard of glass
Kohaku stated that the purity came from the jewel, not the shard.
The bowl or jar is dried in the sun and burnished with a stone or shard.
The evil aura from the ogre taints the shard and then flows into Inuyasha.
Removes the shard and glides through the clouds to return to full strength.
Bullets explode in shards of glass and light, bringing death in chiaroscuro.
I was fired from a Fleet Street bar after I left a shard of glass fall into the ice bucket.
Blackburn magistrates heard Michael Douglas Rhodes caught one his carers in the face with the shard.
One of the children, a girl, suffered a small cut to her left hand from a shard of glass but no medical assistance required.