shard

  1. Noun.  A piece of broken glass or pottery, especially one found in an archaeological dig.
  2. Noun.  A piece of material, especially rock and similar materials, reminding of a broken piece of glass or pottery.
  3. Noun.  A tough scale, sheath, or shell; especially an elytron of a beetle.
  4. Noun.  (context, 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.
  5. Verb.  (intransitive) To fall apart into shards, usually as the result of impact or explosion.
  6. Verb.  (transitive) To break (something) into shards.
  7. Verb.  (context, online role-playing) To divide (an MMORPG) into several shards, or to establish a shard of one.

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