sharded

American  

[shahrd-id] / ˈʃɑrd ɪd /

adjective

1. Computers. (of a database, network, blockchain, etc.) having its data divided by software into smaller fragments distributed across multiple network nodes.

2. Computers. (of an online multiplayer role-playing game with many players) hived off into separate games involving smaller groups of players.

3. Computers. being or relating to any of the fragments, nodes, or groups into which a database, network, online role-playing game, etc., is divided.

4. broken or as if broken into discrete fragments.

5. (of the moon) showing only as a crescent.

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Other Word Forms

• non-sharded
  adjective
• unsharded
  adjective

Example Sentences

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sharded

A mother trails three racing towheaded boys, one of whom stares undaunted at gigantic piles of sharded redwood and cypress and says, “Mommy, I want a stick.”

From Washington Post ● Jan. 20, 2023

Cheap to produce, fast to shoot, exhausting to perform, edited into a sharded crossfire of reaction shots, reality TV proved itself an expedient, maneuverable vehicle optimized for speed, sensation and easy replication.

From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2022

The church, sharded by centuries of suspicion and prideful rivalry and man's inhumanity to man, is newly mindful of Christ's command "that they all may be one."

From Time Magazine Archive

They are the sort best executed in the back offices and cloakrooms of the House, where the bargains are struck, the power sharded and melded, where persuasion can take root.

From Time Magazine Archive

Yet though the hillside was sharded off in great flakes, it is doubtful if this terrific fire inflicted much injury upon the cunning and invisible riflemen with whom we had to contend.

From The Great Boer War by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle