A hard white translucent ceramic, originally made by firing kaolin, quartz, and feldspar at high temperatures but now also inclusive of similar artificial materials; also often (figurative) such a material as a symbol of the fragility, elegance, etc. traditionally associated with porcelain goods.
Synonym of cowrie.
Synonym of china: porcelain tableware.
A kind of pigeon with deep brown and off-white feathers.
An object made of porcelain, (particularly) art objects or items of tableware.
A piece of material, especially rock and similar materials, reminding of a broken piece of glass or pottery.
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 piece of crystal methamphetamine.
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.
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.