shard

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Alternative spellings 1.2 Etymology 1.3 Pronunciation 1.4 Noun 1.4.1 Derived terms 1.4.2 Synonyms 1.4.3 Translations 1.5 Verb 1.5.1 Translations 1.6 References 1.7 Anagrams

[edit] English

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[edit] Alternative spellings

• sherd

[edit] Etymology

From Middle English < Old English sceard. Akin to German Scharte (“‘notch’”), Old Norse skarð (“‘notch, hack’”) ( > Danish skår).

[edit] Pronunciation

• (Aus) IPA: /ʃaːd/
• (UK) IPA: /ʃɑːd/
• (US) IPA: /ʃɑɹd/

[edit] Noun

shard (plural shards)

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 tough scale, sheath, or shell; especially an elytron of a beetle.
4. (online role-playing) 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.

[edit] Derived terms

• potsherd

[edit] Synonyms

• potsherd
• splinter (of glass)

[edit] Translations

[edit] Verb

to shard (third-person singular simple present shards, present participle sharding, simple past and past participle sharded)

1. (intransitive) To fall apart into shards, usually as the result of impact or explosion.
2. (transitive) To break (something) into shards.
3. (online role-playing, transitive) To divide (an MMORPG) into several shards, or to establish a shard of one.

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[edit] References

• (pottery) Shard, in the Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, 1974 edition.

[edit] Anagrams

• Alphagram: adhrs
• hards