stanza

plural stanzas

1. communicationsA unit of a poem, written or printed as a paragraph; equivalent to a verse.
2. architectureAn apartment or division in a building.
3. computingAn XML element which acts as basic unit of meaning in XMPP.

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

   2011, P. Saint-Andre, RFC 6120 - Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): Core

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

   2009, Tim Riley, Adam Goucher, Beautiful Testing: Leading Professionals Reveal How They Improve Software

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

   2009, John Rittinghouse, James F. Ransome, Cloud Computing: Implementation, Management, and Security

4. computingA section of a configuration file consisting of a related group of lines.
5. broadcastingA segment; a portion of a broadcast devoted to a particular topic.

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   Actually NBC and other webs have used similar devices in the past, particularly during the war, when net used plattered segments for its news and documentary stanzas. As far as can be determined, however, this is the first post-war instance in which the net has allowed even a partial plattering of a regularly skedded commercial stanza.

   1957 December 30, “NBC Breaks Wax Rule for Hope's Britain Shows”, in Billboard, volume 59, number 45, page 5

6. hobbiesA period; an interval into which a sporting event is divided.

   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.

   2004 November 22, Roger Angell, “Long Voyage Home”, in The New Yorker, volume 80, number 36, page 50