shard

中文： 碎片、破片

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)

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