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1.NounA piece of broken glass or pottery, especially one found in an archaeological dig.
2.NounA piece of material, especially rock and similar materials, reminding of a broken piece of glass or pottery.
3.NounA tough scale, sheath, or shell; especially an elytron of a beetle.
4.NounAn 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.
5.NounA component of a sharded distributed database.
6.NounA piece of crystal methamphetamine.
7.VerbTo fall apart into shards, usually as the result of impact or explosion.
8.VerbTo break (something) into shards.
9.VerbTo divide (an MMORPG) into several shards, or to establish a shard of one.
10.NounThe plant chard.