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shard

noun
/ʃaːd//ʃɑːd/UK/ʃɑɹd/US

Etymology

From Middle English shard, scherd, scheard, schord, from Old English sċeard (“a broken piece; shard”), from Proto-West Germanic *skard, from Proto-Germanic *skardą (“notch; nick”), from *skardaz (“damaged; nicked; scarred”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”). Akin to Scots schaird (“shard”), French écharde (“splinter”), Dutch schaarde (“tear; notch; fragment”), German Scharte (“notch”), Old Norse skarð (“notch, hack”) ( > Danish skår). The database sense is perhaps derived from the online gaming sense or from SHARD (System for Highly Available Replicated Data), name of a 1980s database product.

  1. derived from *(s)ker-✻ — “to cut”
  2. inherited from *skardą✻ — “notch; nick”
  3. inherited from *skard✻
  4. inherited from sċeard — “a broken piece; shard”
  5. inherited from shard

Definitions

  1. A piece of broken glass or pottery, especially one found in an archaeological dig.

    • You know there is something fascinating beyond that wall because someone's tried to stop you seeing over, and there are shards of glass embedded in the top.

  2. A piece of material, especially rock and similar materials, reminding of a broken piece…

    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

    A tough scale, sheath, or shell; especially an elytron of a beetle.

  4. ›+ 7 more definitions

    1. An instance of an MMORPG that is one of several independent and structurally identical…

      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.

    2. A component of a sharded distributed database.

    3. A piece of crystal methamphetamine.

    4. To fall apart into shards, usually as the result of impact or explosion.

    5. To break (something) into shards.

    6. To divide (an MMORPG) into several shards, or to establish a shard of one.

    7. The plant chard.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for shard. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA