shard
/ˈʃɑɹd/ noun C1- A piece of broken glass or pottery, especially one found in an archaeological dig.
- A piece of material, especially rock and similar materials, reminding of a broken piece of glass or pottery.
- 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.
- 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.
- A piece of crystal methamphetamine.
Plural shards
From the library
It lay scattered, in splintered shards, upon the grass.
Carefully Holmes held each separate shard to the light, but in no way did it differ from any other shattered piece of plaster.
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