shard

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Synonyms: sharp, hard, sward, shared, share, scard, shark, sherd, shad, sard, shand

Antonyms: sharp, hard, sward, shared, share, scard, shark, sherd, shad, sard, shand

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Noun

1. A piece of broken glass or pottery, especially one found in an archaeological dig.
2. A piece of material, especially rock and similar materials, reminding of a broken piece of glass or pottery.
3. A food preparation similar in shape to a shard of, e.g., glass, generally made from a sheet of a hard product that is then shattered to produce smaller pieces.
   • A shard of chocolate adorns the dish.
4. A tough scale, sheath, or shell; especially an elytron of a beetle.
5. 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.
6. A component of a sharded distributed database.
7. A piece of crystal methamphetamine.

Verb

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

Noun

1. The plant chard.

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