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• n  a broken piece of a brittle artifact

• As she rushed down to the cellar with her family, another shell burst nearby, smashing the windows in the stairwell and sending a shard of glass into her forehead.
• From the viewpoint of bioengineering, a silicon chip is a large and rather complex shard of glass.
• The shard infuses him with great genius the Cube being the source of all alien-robot knowledge making him, once again, the Decepticons' main quarry.

• sherd
• fragment

News & Articles

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• History buffs unearth frontier cabin
  DURYEA 8212 Mark Dziak knelt down in the woods to retrieve a shard of blue-flecked pottery from between the roots of an old tree, sending a long-legged spider scurrying for cover as he lifted the nickel-sized ceramic chunk out of the dirt.
  June 15, 2013 - Times Leader
• Renzo Piano’s Latest: An Off-The-Grid, One-Person Mobile Home
  For over 50 years, the architect dreamed of building a one-room structure for minimal living. Now it exists, on Vitra’s campus in Germany. Around the time that the Shard skyscraper was completed in London, in 2012, Renzo Piano told The Guardian that “one of the most important things is to have happy buildings. It’s like having a family with a lot of children.” If that’s true, then Diogene is ...
  June 14, 2013 - Fast Company Magazine

Quotes

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• Alison Eastwood in Washington Post
  He kind of jokingly, after he watched it said: 'oh, chip off the old block' and I said, 'no, more like a shard',Eastwood said, adding that he said he liked it.
• Lawrence Di Rita in Sydney Morning Herald
  He doesn't consider it his own,Di Rita said. "We are mindful of the fact that if somebody has an evidentiary requirement to have this shard of metal, we will provide it to them."