Definition of shard
1a
: a piece or fragment of a brittle substance
shards of glass
broadly
: a small piece or part : scrap
little shards of time and space recorded by the camera's lens — Rosalind Krauss
3
: highly angular curved glass fragments of tuffaceous sediments
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The first known use of shard was before the 12th century
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