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shard

/ʃaːd/ /ʃɑːd/ /ʃɑɹd/

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noun

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

Examples :

"While digging in the garden, I found a shard of blue pottery that must have been buried there a long time ago. "

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(by extension) A piece of material, especially rock and similar materials, reminding of a broken piece of glass or pottery.

Examples :

"After the rockslide, a shard of granite jutted out from the side of the mountain, sharp and dangerous. "

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noun

A tough scale, sheath, or shell; especially an elytron of a beetle.

Examples :

"The beetle's hard shard protected its delicate wings. "

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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.

Examples :

"Players distributed across different shards of the game world experienced less lag and faster load times. "

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A component of a sharded distributed database.

Examples :

""The online game's database was split into several shards to handle the huge number of players logging in from all over the world." "

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noun

(singular or plural) A piece of crystal methamphetamine.

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verb

To fall apart into shards, usually as the result of impact or explosion.

Examples :

"The vase shattered, sharding into many small pieces on the floor. "

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verb

To break (something) into shards.

Examples :

"He accidentally shard the glass vase when he bumped into the table. "

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verb

To divide (an MMORPG) into several shards, or to establish a shard of one.

Examples :

"The game developers decided to shard the popular MMORPG to reduce server lag and improve the player experience by distributing the user base across multiple smaller virtual worlds. "

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noun

The plant chard.

Examples :

"I added some colorful shard to my salad. "

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