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Meaning:

Noun:

  • 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.
  • A tough scale, sheath, or shell; especially an elytron of a beetle.
  • online role-playing 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.

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Verb:

  • online role-playing|transitive To divide (an shards, or to establish a shard of one.
  • intransitive To fall apart into shards, usually as the result of impact or explosion.
  • transitive To break (something) into shards.

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