sherd

/ʃɜː(ɹ)d/ · noun

Meaning

A piece of broken glass or pottery, especially one found in an archaeological dig.
(by extension) A piece of material, especially rock and similar materials, reminding of a broken piece of glass or pottery.
A 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.
A component of a sharded distributed database.
(singular or plural) A piece of crystal methamphetamine.

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