shard
Pronunciation:
/ʃaːd//ʃɑːd//ʃɑɹd/noun
Definitions
A piece of broken glass or pottery, especially one found in an archaeological dig.
Synonyms:potsherd(by extension) A piece of material, especially rock and similar materials, reminding of a broken piece of glass or pottery.
Synonyms:splinterA tough scale, sheath, or shell; especially an elytron of a beetle.
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.
verb
Definitions
To fall apart into shards, usually as the result of impact or explosion.
To break (something) into shards.
To divide (an MMORPG) into several shards, or to establish a shard of one.