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shard

UK
/ʃɑːd/
US
/ʃɑrd/

Translations

shardnoun
shards
pl
UK
/ʃɑːd/
US
/ʃɑrd/
He found a shard of glass on the floor.
Он нашел осколок стекла на полу.
The archaeologist discovered a shard of pottery.
Археолог обнаружил черепок керамики.
Additional translations
обломок
Synonyms
piece
shred
scrap
bit
chip
sliver
splinter
fragment
shardverb
sharded
Past Simple
sharded
Past Participle
sharding
Gerund
Synonyms
smash
burst
crack
fracture
break into pieces
break up
break
fragment
splinter
shatter
shardadjective
UK
/ʃɑːd/
US
/ʃɑrd/
Attributive use of the noun, e.g. "shard key"

Definitions

shardnoun
A piece of broken ceramic, metal, glass, or rock, typically having sharp edges.
She carefully picked up the shard of glass from the floor to avoid injury.
A small part or portion of something, often used metaphorically.
He only had a shard of hope left after hearing the disappointing news.
Computing: a horizontal partition of a dataset or database that is stored separately from others to improve scalability and performance.
Each shard contains data for a specific geographic region.
Computing: a horizontally partitioned segment of a database or data set, stored separately to improve performance or scalability.
The user table is divided into several shards to distribute the workload.
shardverb
To break or cause to break into shards.
The bottle hit the floor and sharded instantly.
Computing: to partition (data, a database, etc.) into smaller parts (shards) distributed across multiple machines.
The system sharded the database to improve performance.
shardadjective
Relating to or made of shards; used before a noun to indicate that something consists of or resembles shards.
The artist created a shard sculpture from broken glass.
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