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