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

(by extension) 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 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.

(databases) A component of a sharded distributed database.

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

The plant chard.

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

(transitive) To break (something) into shards.

(online gaming, transitive) To divide (an MMORPG) into several shards, or to establish a shard of one.