sherds

noun
  1. 1

    A piece of broken glass or pottery, especially one found in an archaeological dig.

  2. 2

    (by extension) A piece of material, especially rock and similar materials, reminding of a broken piece of glass or pottery.

  3. 3

    A tough scale, sheath, or shell; especially an elytron of a beetle.

  4. 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. 5

    A component of a sharded distributed database.

  6. 6

    (singular or plural) A piece of crystal methamphetamine.

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