sharding

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of shard

plural shardings

1. countableuncountablecomputingA decomposition of a database into multiple smaller units that can handle requests individually.

   2007, T Brants, AC Popat, P Xu, FJ Och, J Dean, "Large Language Models in Machine Translation", in Proceedings of the 2007 Conference on Empirical Methods in A sharding function determines which shard (chunk of data in the MapReduce framework) the pair is sent to.

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   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. countableuncountableA 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