Stanza

Quick meaning: Stanza is a noun meaning (poetry) A unit of a poem, written or printed as a paragraph; equivalent to a verse.

Meaning

(poetry) A unit of a poem, written or printed as a paragraph; equivalent to a verse.

More Meanings

1. (architecture) An apartment or division in a building.
2. (computing) An XML element which acts as basic unit of meaning in XMPP.
3. (computing) A section of a configuration file consisting of a related group of lines.
4. (broadcasting) A segment; a portion of a broadcast devoted to a particular topic.
5. (sports) A period; an interval into which a sporting event is divided.

Example Sentences

Definition of XML Stanza: An XML stanza is the basic unit of meaning in XMPP.

Technically speaking, federation is the ability for two XMPP servers in different domains to exchange XML stanzas.

Whenever an XMPP client generates an XML stanza, it typically constructs the XML of the stanza by building up a structured document […]

The game's prime moment wasn't the decisive and popular eighth-inning, two-run homer by Mark Bellhorn, which ticked off the friendly Fenway right-field foul pole, but a sensational play by Boston's Manny Ramirez in the top of that same stanza.

Word Forms

• stanzas

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include verse, cinquain, strophe, couplet, tercet, quatrain.

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