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shardings

shardings is the plural of sharding.

Meaning of sharding

Noun

sharding (countable and uncountable, plural shardings)

  1. A decomposition of a database into multiple smaller units that can handle requests individually.
    • A storage volume with many different potential shardings is analyzed more rapidly by the reuse of calculations made on neighboring vertices in the directed graph.2006, A Merchant, M Kallahalla, R Swaminathan, Sharding method and apparatus using directed graphs, US Patent 7,043,621
  2. A breaking into shards.
    • A universe always shedding, a rain of sheddings and shardings.1991, Lorraine Anderson, Sisters of the Earth: Women's Prose and Poetry about Nature, page 196

Questions about shardings

What is shardings the plural of?
Shardings is the plural of sharding.

Words near shardings in the dictionary

  1. Sharchop
  2. shard
  3. Shardana
  4. sharded
  5. sharding
  6. shardings
  7. shardlike
  8. Shardlow
  9. Shardlows
  10. shards
  11. shardy

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