Meaning & use
shard
A sharp, broken piece of a hard brittle material such as glass, metal, or pottery.
See it in a sentence
He swept up the shards of glass after the window shattered.
A shard of pottery from the ancient vase was found buried in the soil.
A note on using this word
Shard is most often paired with glass, as in glass shards, but it can describe broken fragments of many brittle materials.
Words with a similar meaning
splinterfragment
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