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

"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.
She will persuade herself that the will of the shard is her will, and go to find the parent crystal.
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.