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▸ noun: (by extension) A piece of material, especially rock and similar materials, reminding of a broken piece of glass or pottery.
▸ noun: A tough scale, sheath, or shell; especially an elytron of a beetle.
▸ noun: (online gaming) 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.
▸ noun: (databases) A component of a sharded distributed database.
▸ noun: (slang, in the singular or in the plural) A piece of crystal methamphetamine.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To fall apart into shards, usually as the result of impact or explosion.
▸ verb: (transitive) To break (something) into shards.
▸ verb: (online gaming, transitive) To divide (an MMORPG) into several shards, or to establish a shard of one.
▸ noun: The plant chard.
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