shatter

v. break to pieces, splinter, smash; be broken into pieces; damage, harm; ruin, destroy

"Shatter / Tender" are two songs by the British Rock band Feeder. They were released by the band as a double a-sided single in 2005, reaching #11 in the UK Singles Chart, and did not appear on a regular studio album; it has since been included on the band's compilation album The Singles. The song is still performed live by the band at their shows, usually after "Feeling a Moment". The single is backed up with "Tender" from their current studio album Pushing the Senses, and appears alongside "Shatter" in the end credits of the English dub of the Russian film Night Watch .
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The concept of shattering of a set of points plays an important role in Vapnik-Chervonenkis theory, also known as VC-theory. Shattering and VC-theory are used in the study of empirical processes as well as in statistical computational learning theory.
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Verb
1. break into many pieces; "The wine glass shattered"
(hypernym) burst, bust
(derivation) smashing, shattering
2. break into many pieces; "shatter the plate"
(hypernym) break
(derivation) smashing, shattering

(v. t.)
To scatter about.
  

(v. t.)
To disorder; to derange; to render unsound; as, to be shattered in intellect; his constitution was shattered; his hopes were shattered.
  

(v. t.)
To break at once into many pieces; to dash, burst, or part violently into fragments; to rend into splinters; as, an explosion shatters a rock or a bomb; too much steam shatters a boiler; an oak is shattered by lightning.
  

(v. i.)
To be broken into fragments; to fall or crumble to pieces by any force applied.
  

(n.)
A fragment of anything shattered; -- used chiefly or soley in the phrase into shatters; as, to break a glass into shatters.
  

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