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Rareshard
The correct spelling is shard.
How to pronounce shard
/ʃaːd/
nounIPA: /ʃaːd/
Say it like: Sha-rd
The correct spelling is shard. A piece of broken glass or pottery, especially one found in an archaeological dig.
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Meanings
noun
- 1.A piece of broken glass or pottery, especially one found in an archaeological dig.
- 2.(by extension) 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; especially an elytron of a beetle.
- 4.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.A component of a sharded distributed database.
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.
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