shard
IPA: ʃˈɑrd
noun
- 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.
verb
- (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.
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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.
- "Because the shard is a subtle thing, as is the parent crystal," he told them.
- "My babies," she said, only the last inch of the sword shard emerging from her eye socket.
- 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.
- She will persuade herself that the will of the shard is her will, and go to find the parent crystal.
- One of the children, a girl, suffered a small cut to her left hand from a shard of glass but no medical assistance required.
- One variable may be the population of the sturgeon's primary winter food, the gizzard shard, which is down this year, he said.
- Bruch said one variable may be the population of the sturgeon's primary winter food, the gizzard shard, which is down this year.
- The striped or ferocious hyena, called the shard-wolf, and another which the colonists call the bay-wolf, and which I believe to be the one known as the laughing hyena.
- The striped or ferocious hyena, called the shard-wolf; and another, which the colonists call the bay-wolf, and which I believe to be the one known as the laughing hyena.
- The recent world record of over 30,000 concurrent users on a single shard is a testament to the clusters capabilities and CCP is looking forward to support at least 50,000 concurrent users.
- After the bombing the Israelis had indeed bulldozed everything so that I was able to find just one piece of evidence that beauty had flourished on this hillside, a shard from a piece of colorful tile, about the size of my hand.