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

The plant chard.

(intransitive) To fall apart into shards, usually as the result of impact or explosion. / (transitive) To break (something) into shards.

plural of shard

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of shard

present participle of shard

(databases) A decomposition of a database into multiple smaller units that can handle requests individually. / A breaking into shards.

simple past tense and past participle of shard

plural of sharding

Resembling or characteristic of a shard.