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shard

/ˈʃɑɹd/ sustantivo C1

En español: tasquil, casco, añicos, esquirla

  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. (slang)

Plural shards

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It lay scattered, in splintered shards, upon the grass.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, p. 77 · C1
Carefully Holmes held each separate shard to the light, but in no way did it differ from any other shattered piece of plaster.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, p. 89 · C1

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