transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈshärd ]
noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English sceard; akin to Old English scieran to cut — more at shear
Date: before 12th century
1.
a. : a piece or fragment of a brittle substance
shard s of glass
broadly : a small piece or part : scrap
little shard s of time and space recorded by the camera's lens — Rosalind Krauss
b. : shell , scale ; especially : elytron
2. or sherd ˈshərd : fragments of pottery vessels found on sites and in refuse deposits where pottery-making peoples have lived
3. : highly angular curved glass fragments of tuffaceous sediments