English Dictionary

shard

IPA（発音記号）

/ʃaːd/

名詞

広義 インターネット 複数形 単数形 俗語

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

日本語の意味

破片（割れたガラスや陶器のかけら） / 欠片（特に考古学的発掘において見つかるもの）

The archaeologist carefully labeled each shard found at the ancient temple site.

考古学者は古代の寺院跡で見つかった陶器の破片をひとつひとつ丁寧にラベル付けした。

意味（1）

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

You know there is something fascinating beyond that wall because someone's tried to stop you seeing over, and there are shards of glass embedded in the top.

意味（2）

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

Inside its exhibit hall, behind panes of glass, in a white-lit lab, a team of restorers works on an ancient Byzantine floor: 44 square yards of stone shards rescued from Lot’s Cave Monastery.

意味（3）

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

意味（4）

(online gaming) 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.

The planet was still bound to the jewel's magic, even as it lay shattered upon the floor of Mondain's castle. For, within each shattered remnant of the jewel, dwelled a perfect likeness of Sosaria. Thus is the world in which you are born, live, and die. Brittania, that was once Sosaria, now exists as a thousand worlds, each with its own peoples, history and destiny. This Brittania is but one of many in the multiverse that is... ...ULTIMA ONLINE. - Intro cinematic to the game, written by Michael Morlan https://web.archive.org/web/20080706122926/http://michael-morlan.net/pages/production/prod_uo.htm

意味（5）

(databases) A component of a sharded distributed database.

意味（6）

(slang, in the singular or in the plural) A piece of crystal methamphetamine.

shards （ plural ）