shard

(Anglès)

Noun

1. A piece of broken glass or pottery, especially one found in an archaeological dig.
2. (broadly) A piece of material, especially rock and similar materials, reminding of a broken piece of glass or pottery.
3. A tough scale, sheath, or shell; especially an elytron of a beetle.
4. (Internet) 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. A component of a sharded distributed database.
6. (in-plural, singular, slang) A piece of crystal methamphetamine.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To fall apart into shards, usually as the result of impact or explosion.
2. (transitive) To break (something) into shards.
3. (Internet, transitive) To divide (an MMORPG) into several shards, or to establish a shard of one.

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ʃaːd/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: shard

Heretat de anglès antic: sċeard

Cognat amb escocès: schaird

Cognat amb francès: écharde

Cognat amb neerlandès: schaarde

Cognat amb alemany: Scharte

Cognat amb nòrdic antic: skarð

Cognat amb danès: skår

In summary

From Middle English shard, scherd, scheard, schord, from Old English sċeard (“a broken piece; shard”), from Proto-West Germanic *skard, from Proto-Germanic *skardą (“notch; nick”), from *skardaz (“damaged; nicked; scarred”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”). Akin to Scots schaird (“shard”), French écharde (“splinter”), Dutch schaarde (“tear; notch; fragment”), German Scharte (“notch”), Old Norse skarð (“notch, hack”) ( > Danish skår).
The database sense is perhaps derived from the online gaming sense or from SHARD (System for Highly Available Replicated Data), name of a 1980s database product.

Conceptes

fragment

Sinònims

fragment

splinter

sherd

sliver

chip

bit

piece

potsherd

smithereens

spall

broken piece

rasura

beat

fragmentary grain

flinder

scrap

shatter

shell

🐚

shive

shred

small

Traduccions

morceau

Scherbe

tesson

casco

caco

estilhaço

éclat

Splitter

fragmento

coccio

fragment

fragmento

odłamek

frammento

scherf