shard

Etymology 1
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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.

Noun

 * 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) * 2014,, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)
 * Inside its exhibit hall, behind panes of glass, in a white-lit lab, a team of restorers works on an ancient Byzantine floor: 44 square yards of stone shards rescued from Lot’s Cave Monastery.
 * 1) A tough scale, sheath, or shell; especially an elytron of a beetle.
 * 2)  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.
 * 3) * 1997, Ultima Online. The term "shard" is related to the backstory of the game, in which the Gem of Immortality is shattered by the Stranger, the protagonist of Ultima I.
 * "The planet was still bound to the jewel's magic, even as it lay shattered upon the floor of Mondain's castle. For, [sic] within each shattered remnant of the jewel, dwelled a perfect likeness of Sosaria. Thus is the world in which you are born, live, and die. Brittania [sic], that was once Sosaria, now exists as a thousand worlds, each with its own peoples, history and destiny. This Brittania [sic] is but one of many in the multiverse that is... ...ULTIMA ONLINE." - Intro cinematic to the game, written by Michael Morlan
 * 1)  A component of a sharded distributed database.
 * 2)  A piece of crystal methamphetamine.
 * "The planet was still bound to the jewel's magic, even as it lay shattered upon the floor of Mondain's castle. For, [sic] within each shattered remnant of the jewel, dwelled a perfect likeness of Sosaria. Thus is the world in which you are born, live, and die. Brittania [sic], that was once Sosaria, now exists as a thousand worlds, each with its own peoples, history and destiny. This Brittania [sic] is but one of many in the multiverse that is... ...ULTIMA ONLINE." - Intro cinematic to the game, written by Michael Morlan
 * 1)  A component of a sharded distributed database.
 * 2)  A piece of crystal methamphetamine.
 * 1)  A piece of crystal methamphetamine.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: skerf
 * Arabic: كِسْرَة
 * Bulgarian: чиреп
 * Catalan: padellàs
 * Czech:
 * Danish: skår
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ὄστρακον
 * Hungarian: pottery,  glass
 * Italian: ,
 * Kapampangan: catapa, katapa
 * Latin:
 * Macedonian: откршок, срча glass, цреп
 * Maori: pāra, kuru, rutunga
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk:
 * Persian: شکاله,
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, esp. ceramic
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Roman:
 * Slovak:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: crjop
 * Spanish:, , esquirla
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: bubog
 * Tocharian B: ṣat
 * Ukrainian: оско́лок
 * Walloon:, xhervea


 * Finnish:, ,
 * Tocharian B: ṣat


 * Bulgarian: елитра
 * Finnish:,  ,
 * Russian:

Verb

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

Translations

 * Finnish: sirpaloitua,
 * French:
 * Italian:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: ,


 * Finnish: pirstoa
 * Italian:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,

Noun

 * 1) The plant chard.