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shards

/ʃɑːdz/

/ʃɑrdz/

Translations

shardnoun

shards

/ʃɑːd/

/ʃɑrd/

осколок

He found a shard of glass on the floor.

Он нашел осколок стекла на полу.

черепок

The archaeologist discovered a shard of pottery.

Археолог обнаружил черепок керамики.

Additional translations

Synonyms

shardverb

shards

sharded

Past Simple

sharded

Past Participle

sharding

Gerund

Synonyms

break up

break into pieces

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.