sirpaloitua — meaning in English

English meaning

• fragment noun A small broken-off piece of something larger.
• shard noun A sharp broken piece of glass, pottery, or similar brittle material.
• spall noun A small broken piece or chip, particularly from stone.

Senses

sirpaloitua is used for these senses in English:

• fragment (intransitive) To break apart.
• shard (intransitive) To fall apart into shards, usually as the result of impact or explosion.
• spall (ambitransitive) To break into fragments or small pieces.

fragment — full definition

1. noun A small broken-off piece of something larger.
2. verb To break into pieces, or to split apart.

shard — full definition

1. noun A sharp broken piece of glass, pottery, or similar brittle material.
2. noun In computing, one segment of a database or online game world that has been split up to spread the load across multiple servers.

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