amphetamine vs shard

amphetamine

noun
  • Any mixture of the two amphetamine enantiomers, dextroamphetamine and levoamphetamine. 

  • The racemic freebase of 1-phenylpropan-2-amine; an equal parts mixture of levoamphetamine and dextroamphetamine in their pure amine forms. 

  • A potent central nervous system stimulant of the phenethylamine chemical class that is used to treat ADHD, narcolepsy, and obesity. 

  • Referring to a substituted amphetamine; a member of the amphetamine class of chemicals. 

shard

noun
  • A piece of crystal methamphetamine. 

  • 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. 

  • The plant chard. 

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

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

  • A piece of material, especially rock and similar materials, reminding of a broken piece of glass or pottery. 

verb
  • To break (something) into shards. 

  • To fall apart into shards, usually as the result of impact or explosion. 

  • To divide (an MMORPG) into several shards, or to establish a shard of one. 

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