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Meaning of shard
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.
- 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.
- A component of a sharded distributed database.
verb
- To fall apart into shards, usually as the result of impact or explosion.
- To break (something) into shards.
- To divide (an MMORPG) into several shards, or to establish a shard of one.
noun
- The plant chard.
Source: Free Dictionary API.
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