Definition of sharded:
(n) :
A piece of broken glass or pottery, especially one found in an archaeological dig.
(n) :
(by extension) A piece of material, especially rock and similar materials, reminding of a broken piece of glass or pottery.
(v) :
(intransitive) To fall apart into shards, usually as the result of impact or explosion.
(v) :
(transitive) To break (something) into shards.
(n) :
(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.
(n) :
(databases) A component of a sharded distributed database.